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verb- when reporting a conversation, to say US, 1942
A thoroughly annoying quotative device found as early as 1942, favoured by teenagers in the 1970s and 1980s. - — Miss Cone, The Slang Dictionary (Hawthorne High School), 1965
- So I said, “What’s your name?” And she goes, “My name’s Sandra.” — Leonard Wolfe (Editor), Voices from the Love Generation, p. 171, 1968
- I go, “Wait a minute. What about all these people here?” The William Morris guy goes, “Did I invite them? Check with us first, doll, before you make any plans.” — Elmore Leonard, Touch, pp. 29–30, 1977
- He [Roman Polanski] showed me a Vogue Magazine that he had done and he said, “Would you like me to take your pictures?” And I went, “Yes.” — Testimony of Samantha Jane Gailey to Los Angeles County Grand July, 24 March 1977
- — Connie Eble (editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 3, November 1983
- I went, “Oh, I always see my boyfriend at the weekend,” and he went, “well, that’s that, I s’pose.” — Jenny Pausacker, What Are Ya?, p. 42, 1987
- Mum went to me that Dino went to her to go to me that he isn’t wif Amanda anymore. — Kylie Mole (Maryanne Fahey), My Diary, p. 124, 1988
- I’m going, “Why dod I keep ending up back in this business?” — Robert Stoller and I. S. Levine, Coming Attractions, p. 102, 1991
- The professor announced a twenty page paper due in two days, and I’m going “No way”. — Connie Eble (editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 4, Spring 1992
- We took it for a few days before turning feral. We’d go, “Yeah, yeah, yeah,” and piss off to our rooms[.] — John Birmingham, He Died With a Felafel in his Hand, p. 172, 1994
- He saw the Jimi poster in my room and goes, “That nigger looks like he’s got a mouth full of cum.” — Francesca Lia Block, Baby Be-Bop, p. 391, 1995
- He goes “Hey, quit hassling me cause I don’t speak French or whatever,” and the other guy goes something in Paris talk, and I go, “Um, just back off,” and he goes “Get out” and I go “Make me.” — Austin Powers, 1997
- He looks into the camera and goes, “Hi! I’m Glenn.” — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 139, 2000
- You listen to that, you go, “Wow, they went a long way, didn’t they?” — Peter Noone, Uncut, p. 47, July 2001
- to take on the mannerisms and customs of a place or group of people US, 1917
- Andy Warhol has “gone Hollywood.” — The Advocate, p. 13, October 1967
- Assuring his friends back at Dartmouth that even though he’d gone to Hollywood, he had not gone Hollywood. — Eve Babitz, Eve’s Hollywood, p. 177, 1974
- to find acceptable, to wish for, to enjoy UK
Especially, and usually, when applied to food or drink. - “I’ll bet you could go a cup of tea, Sonny,” I asked. — Caddie, A Sydney Barmaid, 1953
- “Yer could go a feed, couldn’ yer?” — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 46, 1957
- Gees, I could go a beer. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 126, 1957
- to urinate; to defecate UK, 1926
Probably a shortening of “go to the toilet”, now a euphemism. - [H]e wished he’d had the sense to go before he got in the truck. — Derek Bickerton, Payroll, p. 50, 1959
- I’d only just "been" five minutes or so before his arrival. — The Guardian, 25 May 2000: “A life inside”
- to attack physically; to fight AUSTRALIA, 1924
- I was itching to go him. — Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, p. 149, 1945
- “You bloke go all right,” one of them said, “that was a bloody good fight.” — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 151, 1988
- to race US
- You know, a guy goes up to another guy’s car and looks it up and down like it has gangrene or something, and he says: “You wanna go?” — Tom Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, p. 88, 1965
- to become (of a political situation, circumstance or political constituency) US, 1937
- Newark, a Labour seat for almost 30 years, went Tory, too, dispatching another junior minister. — The Guardian, 4 May 1979
- in a casino, to earn in tips US
- What did we go last night? — Lee Solkey, Dummy Up and Deal, p. 114, 1980
- to weigh US
- Built like one of those giant Samoans you saw, this one going at least two-sixty in his tanktop, a do-rag down on his eyebrows, thick black hair to his huge shoulders. — Elmore Leonard, Be Cool, p. 58, 1999
- of a telephone, to ring UK
- Eight in the morning, the phone’s gone, it’s Gene. — J. J. Connolly, Layer Cake, p. 85, 2000
▶ go all the way
to have sexual intercourse US, 1924- If a girl goes all the way, a boy doesn’t have to find out. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 71, 1957
- My buddy saw a girl just once (last May 10th) and he said they went all the way. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 13, 24 December 1957
- There was a point at which I felt the dangers of our sexual relation-ship going “all the way” too soon. — Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen, Sex Histories of American College Men, p. 118, 1960
- A week before he was moving we went all the way. I think about him all the time and feel lost without him. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 9, 7 October 1961
- He was going to take advantage of me! He was going to go all the way ...! — John Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo, p. 170, 1965
- The younger and more naive kids were sure Duane went all the way[.] — Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show, p. 63, 1966
- I would be insulted if my Mom gave me the pill. That’s like saying she doesn’t care if I went all the way. — San Francisco Chronincle, p. 39, 24 October 1968
- She said she was so horny she might go all the way! — Richard Price, The Wanderers, p. 25, 1974
- About three months ago one thing led to another and before we knew it, Hall and I went all the way. — San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle Sundy Scene, p. 6, 14 April 1974
- A: I would say that this song is not specifically about sex. Q: Well, we have agreed that the title “Would You Go All The Way?” means “Would you have sexual intercourse?” — Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book, p. 132, 1989
- She was in love, but she couldn’t “go all the way.” — Kathryn Leigh Scott, The Bunny Years, p. 51, 1998
▶ go Alzheimers
to forget UK
Public awareness of Alzheimer’s confuses the disease with the premature senile dementia it causes.- There’s a boat waiting at Tilbury. We slap him on it and we go Alzheimers on the whole business. — Bernard Demspey and Kevin McNally Lock, Stock ... and Two Sips, p. 319, 2000
▶ go bent- to become dishonest UK
From BENT - [T]hey were going to make Bobby go bent, and there were so many bent trade union officials[.] — Uncut, p. 6, February 2002
- (of a police witness) to retract a statement or renege on an undertaking UK
The implication is that the witness is behaving in a criminal manner, BENT. - — Peter Laurie, Scotland Yard, p. 320, 1970
▶ go big, go fat
to achieve substantial height or distance in snowboarding US- — Jim Humes and Sean Wagstaff, Boarderlands, p. 222, 1995
▶ go down the rabbit hole
to use drugs CANADA
An allusion to Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland.- — Jack Chambers (Editor), Slang Bag 93 (University of Toronto), p. 3, Winter 1993
▶ go for a burton- to to be killed in an air crash UK, 1941
Military slang of uncertain etymology. - to be destroyed or ruined, to be forgotten UK, 1957
- Their attendance soon went for a Burton[.] — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 150, 2001
▶ go great guns
to do very well, to prosper UK, 1913- Chelsea could go great guns if they get a top striker or Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink finds his old form. — The Guardian, 15 August 2003
▶ go off like a two-bob rocket
to lose your temper in a very unsubtle way UK: SCOTLAND- All Ah says wis “How’s yer love life?” an he goes aff lik a two-bob rocket!” — Michael Munro, The Complete Patter, 1996
▶ go on
to talk at length UK, 1822- The government is always going on about giving people choice[.] — The Guardian, 26 January 2004
▶ go over jackass hill
to be a teenager CANADA- [He’s] “going over jackass hill” is a Hereford, Quebec way to say that a young man is a teenager. — Lewis Poteet, Talking Country, p. 46, 1992
▶ go over the wall- to secretly depart from anywhere you are duty-bound to be US, 1933
Applies to escape from prison and the wider world. - The [Holy] communion IS our smokescreen [...] no cunt is going to expect us to be going over the wall Sunday of all days. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 232, 2001
- to go to prison UK, 1917
- [H]e went over the wall at Leicester about ten years ago. — The Sweeney, p. 29, 1976
▶ go some- to fight US
- — Joan Fontaine et al., Dictionary of Black Slang, 1968
- to go well, to proceed with notable vigour US, 1911
- He edges it and Cork takes a very smart catch at slip. It was going some! What a superb early breakthrough for England! — The Guardian, 6 September 2002
▶ go south- to deteriorate; to break US
- Once we got to SoCal, my transmission went south too. — Ralph “Sonny” Barger, Hell’s Angel, p. 30, 2000
- in a gambling cheating scheme, to take dice or money off the gaming table US
- “Time to go south,” Duffy said. — Stephen Cannell, Big Con, p. 197, 1997
▶ go through the card
to cover everything that is available in a given circumstance UK
Originally a horse racing term.- Blokes and birds, birds and blokes, birds and birds, even, well, blokes and blokes, and ... I mean, they really did go though the card. — Mike Stott, Soldiers Talking, Cleanly, 1978
▶ go to bat
to stand trial US
A baseball metaphor.- I went up to bat on the sale first. — Henry Williamson, Hustler!, p. 141, 1965
- He went to bat for wasting [killing] three of ‘em, but he beat those raps. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 94, 1979
▶ go to ground
to go into hiding US- Of course that’s where Rooski would go to ground[.] — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 60, 1990
▶ go to higher game
to launch a legitimate business after a period in an underworld enterprise US- They never have been able to get enough money together to retire or go on to higher game[.] — Christina and Richard Milner, Black Players, p. 157, 1972
▶ go to New Norfolk
to be crazy AUSTRALIA, 1988
A reference to the asylum located in New Norfolk.- — Maureen Brooks and Joan Ritchie, Tassie Terms, p. 58, 1995
▶ go to the wall
to exert yourself at all costs without regard to the consequences US- — John R. Armore and Joseph D. Wolfe, Dictionary of Desperation, p. 31, 1976
▶ go up fool’s hill
to be a teenager CANADA- [In Shelburne, NS] a person “going up fool’s hill” is typically fifteen to eighteen years old. — Lewis Poteet, The South Shore Phrase Book, p. 52, 1999
▶ go upside someone’s head
to hit someone on the head US- If she hollers cop, all you do is bop – her by going up side her head with your fist hard as lead! — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 5, 1959
- He was ready to go upside her head (beat her) when she threw $2,200 on the bed. — Babs Gonzales, I Paid My Dues, p. 97, 1967
▶ go west on you
to fail, to let you down CANADA- To go west on you is to say “to let you down in a major way,” as, for example, an engine that breaks. — Lewis Poteet, The South Shore Phrase Book, p. 53, 1999
▶ go with the flow
to acquiesce US, 1977- All the teachers said people in your situation should just go with the flow for a while. Wendy looked at her sandwich, trying to imagine what it would mean to go with the flow. — Joyce Maynard, The Usual Rules, p. 77, 2003
▶ not go much on
to not like much AUSTRALIA, 1932- “Boys”, she said, “never go much on kissun. That is”, she said, “they will, but up to a point. It is funny.” — Patrick White, The Tree of Man, p. 120, 1955
- — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 160, 1969
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