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発音

• enPR: gŏnʹzō
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈɡɑnzoʊ/
• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɡɒnzəʊ/
• 韻: -ɒnzəʊ
• Homophone: gone-zo

形容詞

gonzo (comparative more gonzo, superlative most gonzo)

1. (journalism) Using an unconventional, exaggerated, and highly subjective style, often when the reporter takes part in the events of the story.
   • 1972, Richard Pollack, chapter VI, in Stop the Presses, I Want to Get Off!:

     I ask Hunter to explain ... Just what is Gonzo Journalism? ... “Gonzo all started with Bill Cardosa , ... after I wrote the Kentucky Derby piece for Scanlan's ... the first time I realized you could write different. And ... I got this note from Cardosa saying, ‘That was pure gonzo journalism!’ ... Some Boston word for weird, bizarre.”

2. Unconventional, bizarre, crazy. [from 1974]
   • 2007, Mark Dery, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American culture on the brink‎, page 121:

     Nicholson’s Torrance is an evil clown ... Appropriately, pop culture has embraced him as a gonzo antihero: Ads for T-shirts emblazoned with the “Here’s Johnny” Nicholson

派生語

名詞

gonzo (countable and uncountable, plural gonzos)

1. Gonzo journalism or a journalist who produces such journalism.
   • 2000, Hunter S. Thompson, Douglas Brinkley, Fear and Loathing in America: The brutal odyssey of an outlaw Journalist, 1968–1976:

     “Unstable” indeed! Those swine: Next year we should demand a gonzo category – or maybe R S should give it. Of course: “The first annual Rolling Stone award for the year's finest example of pure gonzo journalism.”

2. (countable) A wild or crazy person.

参照

Further reading

• gonzo on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Özgön