acid house

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.

Derived terms

• acid jazz

Further reading

• acid house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English acid house.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˌaθid ˈxaus/ [ˌa.θið̞ ˈxau̯s]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˌasid ˈxaus/ [ˌa.sið̞ ˈxau̯s]

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.

Further reading

• “acid house”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10