dis|co|theque

dis|co|thèque or dis|co|theque «DIHS kuh tehk, _DIHS kuh TEHK; French dees koh TEHK», noun, verb, -thèqued, -thèqu|ing or -thequed, -thequ|ing.

–n.

a night club or other place of entertainment where customers or performers dance or sing to recorded music: »

The young generation loves the noisy nightclubs and the discothèques (New York Times).

–v.i.

to dance to recorded music at a discothèque: »

Most older men will only react by trying doubly hard to prove how young they are, sweating it out on the tennis court or discothequing it way past their bedtime (Time).

╂[< French discothèque (literally) record library < disque disk, record + -thèque (as in bibliothèque library); originally applied to a record shop, then to a café or bar where customers chose records to be played from a selection]