acid house
English edit
Etymology edit
Late 1980s, likely a reference to acid (“LSD, psychedelic drugs”), influenced by earlier acid rock. See Acid House § Etymology.
Noun edit
- (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.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
acid house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English acid house.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Spain) /ˌaθid ˈxaus/ [ˌa.θið̞ ˈxau̯s]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /ˌasid ˈxaus/ [ˌa.sið̞ ˈxau̯s]
Noun edit
acid house m (uncountable)
Usage notes edit
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.
Further reading edit
- “acid house”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014