noun Music Slang

Glowstick

/ˈɡloʊstɪk/ · noun · informal

A glowing light stick waved at raves — and a whole performance art of doing so.

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Definitions

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A flexible tube that glows when snapped, waved and twirled by ravers in the dark as part of the visual experience.

“Someone handed me a fistful of glowsticks and the night transformed.”
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Shorthand for 'glowsticking,' the skilled art of performing intricate patterns with glowing sticks to the beat.

“His glowstick game is mesmerizing, total flow state.”
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Loosely, anything thin, bright and a bit floppy.

“It's January in shorts, you look like a glowstick out here.”
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Glowstick In A Sentence

Lost myself watching this guy glowstick for a full ten minutes.
Always bring extra glowsticks, you'll end up giving them all away.
The whole field lit up with glowsticks when the drop hit.

Origin & Usage

Chemical light sticks became a rave staple in the 1990s; the freehand 'glowstringing' and 'glowsticking' art forms grew out of that scene, later joined by LED gloving.

Variants glowstickingglowstringingglow stick
Tags #american#90s#gen-z

People Also Ask

What are glowsticks used for at raves?

They're waved and twirled in the dark for the visual experience, and skilled dancers use them to perform flowing light patterns.

What is glowsticking?

It's the performance art of moving glowing sticks in intricate, beat-matched patterns, popular in rave culture.

Are glowsticks the same as gloving?

No — gloving uses LED lights inside fingertips of gloves, while glowsticking uses handheld chemical or LED sticks.

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