acid house

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English

Etymology

First appears c. 1988, in the periodical New Musical Express. Likely a reference to acid (“LSD, psychedelic drugs”), influenced by earlier acid rock. See Acid House § Etymology.

Noun

acid house (uncountable)

  1. (music) A style of music from the early rave scene in the UK.
    Synonym: acid
    Hypernym: house music
    Coordinate term: (precursor) Hi-NRG
    • 1989 January, Sean O'Hagan, “Acid House”, in SPIN, SPIN Media LLC, page 64:
      Acid House, this year's underground musical phenomenon, had finally made it into the living rooms of Britain. A nation, encountering for the first time a new music, fashion, and cultural phenomenon, flew into another drug-obsessed moral panic.

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Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English acid house.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /ˌaθid ˈxaus/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˌasid ˈxaus/

Noun

acid house m (uncountable)

  1. acid house

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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