acid house

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ac′id house′, 

1. Music and Dance [Chiefly Brit.] a style of disco music marked by heavy bass and synthesizer rhythms, often associated with the taking of LSD and MDMA.

• 1985–90

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Acid House, Acid noun

1. 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

Etymology: 20th Century: perhaps from acid (LSD) + House ( music)