Acid house
Chiefly British. a style of disco music marked by heavy bass and synthesizer rhythms, often associated with the taking of LSD and MDMA.
noun
a type of funk-based electronically edited disco music of the late 1980s, which has hypnotic sound effects and is associated with hippy culture and the use of the drug ecstasy
noun
a type of dance music with a driving tempo and synthesized sounds
Usage Note
associated with drug-taking
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