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A warehouse full of strangers agreeing, via dance, that 6am is basically midnight.

means To talk about something with wild, gushing enthusiasm — or to lose yourself at an all-night dance party fueled by electronic music.

from Rave traces back to Middle English 'raven,' meaning to show signs of madness or delirium, possibly related to Old French 'raver' (to rave or wander in speech) and distantly linked to words for delirium and frenzy. By the 1960s 'rave' had drifted into British slang for a wild party, and by the late 1980s the UK's acid house scene seized the word wholesale — turning 'madness' into a genre of its own, danced out in fields and warehouses until dawn.

origin
term borrowed from 1960s mod slang for wild parties
fashion
glow sticks exist because strobe lights ruin depth perception
legal history
UK banned gatherings with repetitive beats in 1994
economics
bottled water sales spike wherever raves spike
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