Get down

During the disco and funk era, in many venues the dance floor was often located below the seating area, so to "get down" was to go down to the dance floor. Originally meant in reference to dancing, eventually leading to sexual implications. However, it also means "to be cool with". A most useful term. Other forms: Get down, gettin down, getting down. There is a more recent version of the sexual meaning is "going down (town)".