Get your groove thing on?

Posted by ESC on March 08, 2001

In Reply to: Get your groove thing on? posted by Mike on March 08, 2001

: I've heard this phrase used by various people who I don't think knew what they were really saying themselves. I bet it comes from some fairly recent rap lyrics. Anybody know the offical derivation/meaning? Thanks.

The official derivation is from "groovy; in the groove...allusion to the quality of music reproduced when a good phonograph needle traverses the grooves of a record without jumping out. Oddly enough, an older English expression 'groovy,' dating back to the late 19th century, means just about the opposite -- to be in a rut, like a cart stuck in the grooves of a muddy road." Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by Robert Hendrickson (Facts on File, New York, 1997)