Definition of "go"

go¹

/ɡoʊ/

verb
third-person singular simple present goes, present participle going, simple past went or (archaic) yode, past participle gone or (nonstandard) went
1. To move:
  1. (intransitive) To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.)
    Quotations
    She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.
    1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company
    […] there was a general sense of panic going through the house; […]
    2005, David Neilson, Standstill, page 159
    Telegrams to London went by wire to Halifax, Nova Scotia, thence by steam mail packet to Liverpool, […]
    2013, Mike Vouri, The Pig War: Standoff at Griffin Bay, page 177
    I have to go now. Audio (US)(file)
    2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
  2. (intransitive) To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.)
    Quotations
    You have to go all the way back to Herbert Hoover to see a performance in the Standard & Poors 500 equal to what we are experiencing right now.
    2002 September 18, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 107th Congress, second session; Senate, page 17033
    "I don't know how to tell you this, Aubrey, but you can't go back to 1938 […] the program won't accept any date that I input before 1941." […] "Well, I'll go to 1941, then."
    2010, Charlotte Sadler, Time for One More Dance, page 162
  3. (intransitive) To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc).
    Quotations
    To access Office-related TechNet resources, go to www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office.
    2009, David J. Clark, The Unofficial Guide to Microsoft Office Word 2007, page 536
    Go to your earliest memory and to your favorite one, then to one that's difficult to consider.
    2009, Lisa W. Coyne, Amy R. Murrell, The Joy of Parenting
    Go to drive C: through My Computer (or Computer in Windows 7 and Vista) and double-click the c:\data folder.
    2012, Glen E. Clarke, Edward Tetz, CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One For Dummies, page 280
  4. To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion).
    Quotations
    The car went a short distance, then halted. There was something wrong with the carburetor.
    2003, Harrison E. Salisbury, The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad, page 307
  5. (intransitive) To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving.
    Quotations
    ’[R]e you another agoin’ on this crazy voyage?
    1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 2
  6. (intransitive) To leave; to move away.
    Quotations
    And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call diuine, that doth by Cheſter tend; […]
    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, stanza 39, page 167
    Like her I go; I cannot stay;⁠I leave this mortal ark behind,A weight of nerves without a mind,And leave the cliffs, and haste away […]
    1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto XII
  7. (obsolete, intransitive) To walk; to travel on one's feet.
    Quotations
    ‘As for that,’ seyde Sir Trystram, ‘I may chose othir to ryde othir to go.’
    1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XII
    Master Piercie our new President, was so sicke hee could neither goe nor stand.
    1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, page 129
    Other brunts I also look for; but this I have resolved on, to wit, to run when I can, to go when I cannot run, and to creep when I cannot go.
    1684, John Bunyan, “Battle with Giant Slay-good”, in The Pilgrim's Progress, Part II Section 3
2. (intransitive, chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).
  Quotations
  'Although the lemon is now black and shrivelled the motor is still going strong. If I can make my small motor run for month after month on a single lemon, just imagine how much "juice" there must be in a whole sackful', Mr Ashill said.
  1997, New Scientist, volume 154, page 105
  […] though his publisher swears black and blue that Kelder is still going strong and still remains an intensely private person.
  2008, Michael Buckley, Shangri-La: A Practical Guide to the Himalayan Dream, page 146
3. (intransitive) To start; to begin (an action or process).
  Quotations
  At leaſt, I'm ſure I can fiſh it out of her. She's the very Sluce to her Lady's Secrets;—'Tis but ſetting her Mill agoing, and I can drein her of 'em all.
  1693, [William] Congreve, The Old Batchelour, a Comedy. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Peter Buck, […], Act V, page 45
  Be listening for my voice. Go when you hear my voice say go.
  2001 June 18, a prophecy, quoted in Mary and the Unity of the Church page 49
4. (intransitive) To take a turn, especially in a game.
5. (intransitive) To attend.
6. To proceed:
  1. (intransitive) To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state).
    Quotations
    How goes the night, boy?
    c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]
    I think, as the world goes, he was a good sort of man enough.
    1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations
    Whether the cause goes for me or against me, you must pay me the reward.
    1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […], published 1726
    I certainly won't mention it to Ben, and will go carefully if he mentions it to me.
    1986, The Opera Quarterly, volume 4, numbers 3-4, page 24
  2. (intransitive, colloquial, with another verb, sometimes linked by and) To proceed (especially to do something foolish).
    Quotations
    And even if she had believed the story about a John Smith, she might go telling everyone in town about what she'd seen.
    2011, Debra Glass, Scarlet Widow, page 96
7. To follow or travel along (a path):
  1. To follow or proceed according to (a course or path).
    Quotations
    I'm repeating it: I wish that you would go this path up to its end, that you shall find salvation!
    1951?, Gunther Olesch et al., Siddhartha, translation of original by Hermann Hesse
  2. To travel or pass along.
    Quotations
    A shady promenade went the length of the street and the entrance to the hotel was a few steps back in the darkness, away from the glaring sunshine.
    2010, Luke Dixon, Khartoum, page 60
8. (intransitive) To extend (from one point in time or space to another).
  Quotations
  I think those figures start from 1932 and go to 1941, inclusive, […]
  1946, Hearings Before the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Congress of the United States, Seventy-ninth Congress, First Session, page 2459
  Even though they can give a basic fact such as 4×4, I don't know that this knowledge goes very deep for them.
  2007, Math for All: Differentiating instruction, grades K-2, page 38
9. (intransitive) To lead (to a place); to give access to.
  Quotations
  “Where does this door go?” Bev asked as she pointed to a door painted a darker green than the powder green color of the carpet. Janet answered. “That door goes to the back yard.”
  2013, Without Delusion, page 191
10. (copulative) To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.)
  Quotations
  Referring to the American radicals who went Hollywood in the 1930s, Abraham Polonsky argues that "you can't possibly explain the Hollywood communists away […] "
  2001, Saverio Giovacchini, Hollywood Modernism: Film and Politics, page 18
11. To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
  Quotations
  There is scarcely a business man who is not occasionally asked to go bail for somebody.
  1912, The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer, volume 36, page 17
  Most welfare workers are not allowed to go surety for clients.
  2010, Jane Sanders, Youth Justice: Your Guide to Cops and Courts
12. (intransitive, copulative) To continuously or habitually be in a state.
13. (copulative) To come to (a certain condition or state).
14. (intransitive) To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.
15. To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).
  Quotations
  When Wharton had to relinquish his seat in Buckinghamshire on his elevation to the peerage in 1696, he was unable to replace himself with a suitable man, and the by-election went in favour of a local Tory, Lord Cheyne.
  2014, Tim Harris, Politics Under the Later Stuarts, page 195
16. (intransitive) To tend (toward a result).
17. To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.
  Quotations
  What can we know of any substance or existence, but as made up of all the qualities that go to its composition: extension, solidity, form, colour; take these away, and you know nothing.
  1839, A Challenge to Phrenologists; Or, Phrenology Tested, page 155
  The avoirdupois pound is one of 7,000 grains, and go to the pound.
  1907, Patrick Doyle, Indian Engineering, volume 41, page 181
18. To pass, to be used up:
  1. (intransitive, of time) To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.)
    Quotations
    But the days went and went, and she never came; and then I thought I would come here where you were.
    1850, “Sketches of New England Character”, in Holden's Dollar Magazine, volumes 5-6, page 731
    The rest of the morning went quickly and before Su knew it Jean was knocking on the door […]
    2008, Sue Raymond, Hidden Secrets, page 357
  2. (intransitive) To end or disappear. (Compare go away.)
  3. (intransitive) To be spent or used up.
    Quotations
    All I have is a sleeping bag right now. All my money goes to keep up the cars.
    2011, Ross Macdonald, Black Money, page 29
19. (intransitive) To die.
  Quotations
  By Saint George, he's gone! / That spear wound hath our master sped.
  1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “(please specify the introduction or canto number, or chapter name)”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray
  After two years of swaddled invalidism, Mrs. Morton emitted a final gassy sigh and died, whereas twenty years later Elihu was to go “just like that,” as the neighbors said, from a stroke.
  1978, David Galloway, A Family Album, London: John Calder, page 36
  "Your father's gone." "Okay, okay, the Gaffer's kicked off. What happened?"
  1997, John Wheatcroft, The Education of Malcolm Palmer‎, page 85
20. (intransitive, cricket) To be lost or out:
  1. (intransitive, cricket, of a wicket) To be lost.
  2. (intransitive, cricket, of a batsman) To be out.
21. To break down or apart:
  1. (intransitive) To collapse or give way, to break apart.
    Quotations
    I wonder if I hopped up and down, would the bridge go?
    1998, Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek‎, page 157
    Sober-eyed commentators safe in their television studios interviewed engineers about the chances that the rest of the dam could go.
    2011, Shaunti Feldhahn, The Lights of Tenth Street
    Jackson shook his head. "The contractor said those panes could go at any moment." / "Right. Just like the wiring could go at any moment, and the roof could go at any moment."
    2012, Carolyn Keene, Mardi Gras Masquerade, page 38
  2. (intransitive) To break down or decay.
22. (intransitive) To be sold.
23. (intransitive) To be discarded or disposed of.
24. (intransitive) To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.
  Quotations
  If my money goes to education, I want a report card.
  2007, David Bouchier, The Song of Suburbia: Scenes from Suburban Life, page 19
25. (transitive, intransitive) To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.
  Quotations
  Against the Big Green, Princeton went the entire first and third quarters without gaining a first down, […]
  1983, Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 84, page 48
  England have now gone four games without a win at Wembley, their longest sequence without a victory in 30 years, and still have much work to do to reach Euro 2012 as they prepare for a testing trip to face Bulgaria in Sofia in September.
  2011 June 4, Phil McNulty, “England 2-2 Switzerland”, in BBC‎
  'Surely one cannot go for long in this world to-day without at least a thought for St Simon Stylites?'
  2011, H. R. F. Keating, Zen there was Murder
26. (transitive, sports) To have a certain record.
27. To be authoritative, accepted, or valid:
  1. (intransitive) Of an opinion or instruction, to have (final) authority; to be authoritative.
  2. (intransitive) To be accepted.
    Quotations
    The money which remains should go according to its true value.
    1691, [John Locke], Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest, and Raising the Value of Money. […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], published 1692
  3. (intransitive) To be valid.
    Quotations
    [To job interviews, wear] muted colors. No pink or paisley (that goes for you too, guys!) […]
    2014, Shayna Lance King, If You'd Read This Book: You'd Be Employed By Now, page 22
28. To say (something), to make a sound:
  1. (transitive, colloquial) To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.)
  2. (transitive) To make the (specified) sound.
  3. (intransitive) To sound; to make a noise.
    Quotations
    At 4pm, the phone went. It was The Sun: 'We hear your daughter's been expelled for cheating at her school exams […] ' / / She'd made a remark to a friend at the end of the German exam and had been pulled up for talking. / / As they left the exam room, she muttered that the teacher was a 'twat'. He heard and flipped—a pretty stupid thing to do, knowing the kids were tired and tense after exams. Instead of dropping it, the teacher complained to the Head and Deb was carpeted.
    1992 June 24, Edwina Currie, Diary
29. To be expressed or composed (a certain way).
30. (intransitive) To resort (to).
31. To apply or subject oneself to:
  1. To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.)
    Quotations
    Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood.
    a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912,
    Now I didn't go to make that mistake about the record-breaking drought of more than fifty years ago, but, boy, am I glad I made it. Otherwise, I wouldn't have heard from Joe Almand.
    1990, Celestine Sibley, Tokens of myself, page 73
  2. (intransitive) To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something).
  3. (intransitive) To work (through or over), especially mentally.
32. To fit (in a place, or together with something):
  1. (intransitive, often followed by a preposition) To fit.
  2. (intransitive) To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink.
  3. (intransitive) To belong (somewhere).
33. (intransitive) To date.
34. (transitive) To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race).
  Quotations
  You can date black, you can do white, on a slow night maybe even go for an Asian boy, but most likely you'll go Latino unless the aforementioned guys speak a little Spanish […]
  2005, Frederick Smith, Down For Whatever, Kensington Books, page 197
  I felt that was an insult to John Lennon, but I married her anyway. Thinking back, I should have gone Asian.
  2010 November 9, Greg Fitzsimmons, Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons: Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox, Simon and Schuster, page 166
  “I could give a flying fuck less if Ronnie dated a Martian, but the fact of the matter is that it would not be cool for him to go Asian. He knows it and I know it.” Ronnie did not respond at all. Shit, he wanted to date Tai in the worst way, […]
  2010, Marty Nazzaro, The City of Presidents, FriesenPress, page 131
  In fact, Hispanics and Asians are riding the wave—26 percent of Latino and 31 percent of Asian newlywed couples were mixed race or ethnicity. And, when marrying out, we went white—four in ten Latinos married a white spouse, […]
  2011 May 3, Sandra Guzmán, The New Latina’s Bible: The Modern Latina’s Guide to Love, Spirituality, Family, and La Vida‎, Basic Books
  She's gone black now. That's a big change for you, Cassie. So tell me, is it true what they say about black men?
  2012 March 1, Sylvia Lett, All Night Lover, Kensington Publishing Corp., page 182
  “She went black,” he remembers. “She only started dating black guys. Or foreigners.”
  2017 May 16, Judith A. Yates, "She Is Evil!": Madness and Murder in Memphis‎, WildBlue Press
  “Your twin is dating a white man,” Lashana interjected. […] “ […] Now, let me get this straight, Eb, you've gone white?”
  2018 November 27, M.J. Kane, A Heart Not Easily Broken (Butterfly Memoirs)‎, Written Musings
  She's hot. Hey, how are your parents about it all? I mean, you're breaking two taboos there—you're dating women, and you've gone white.
  2022 January 4, Radhika Sanghani, 30 Things I Love About Myself‎, Penguin
35. To attack:
  1. (intransitive) To fight or attack.
    Quotations
    You wanna go, little man?
    2002, “Objects in Space”, in Firefly, Jayne Cobb (actor)
  2. (transitive, obsolete, US, slang) To fight.
    Quotations
    You've shown me his weak points, and I'll go him whether you stick by me or not.
    1900, Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Tricks: Or True Friends and False‎
  3. (transitive, Australian slang) To attack.
    Quotations
    As big as me. Strong, too. I was itching to go him, And he had clouted Ernie.
    1964, Robert Close, Love Me Sailor, page 131
    Then I′m sure I heard him mutter ‘Why don′t you get fucked,’ under his breath.It was at that moment that I became a true professional. Instead of going him, I announced the next song.
    2002, James Freud, I am the Voice Left from Drinking, unnumbered page
    Tom stepped back, considered the hill, and taking off down it. She was going to go him for blowing that flamin′ whistle in her ear all day.
    2005, Joy Dettman, One Sunday, page 297
36. To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group.
  Quotations
  Booster is not a loud trumpeter as elephants go.
  1975, Private Eye, numbers 340-366, page 9
  They are fairly rough and ready as models go, not often driven to the rigor of an authentic scientific law, and never worried about coming out with some revolutionary mathematical language — but models nonetheless, […]
  1982, Fernand Braudel, On History, page 40
  She was, as girls go, scrawny and muscular, yet her boyish frame had in the last year betrayed her.
  1991, Katherine Paterson, Lyddie
37. (transitive) To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.
  Quotations
  They were to go equal shares in the booty.
  1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […]
38. (transitive) To yield or weigh.
  Quotations
  This'll go three tons to the acre, or I'll eat my shirt.
  1910, Ray Stannard Baker, Adventures in Friendship‎, page 182
39. (transitive, intransitive) To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.
40. (transitive, colloquial) To enjoy. (Compare go for.)
41. (intransitive, colloquial) To urinate or defecate.
  Quotations
  Clarence was just as surprised to see Richard, and he went—right there in the doorway. I had slept through all this mayhem on the other side of the apartment. By the time I got up, these were all semi-comical memories and the urine had been cleaned up.
  2006, Kevin Blue, Practical Justice: Living Off-Center in a Self-Centered World, page 54
42. (imperative) Expressing encouragement or approval.
noun
countable and uncountable, plural goes
1. (uncommon) The act of going.
  Quotations
  The Apostles were to be the first of a line. They would multiply successors, and the successors would die and their successors after them, but the line would never fail; and the come and go of men would not matter, since it is the one Christ operating through all of them.
  1993, Francis J. Sheed, Theology and Sanity
  They talk easily together and they hear the come and go of the breeze in the soon to be turning burnt leaves of the high trees.
  2009, Mark Raney, David Midgett, page 68
2. A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).
3. An attempt, a try.
  Quotations
  You have to stay and we will have a go at winning the championship next season."
  2012, Alex Montgomery, Martin O'Neill: The Biography, page 196
4. An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.
  Quotations
  "Well, Tom, is it a go? You can trust me, for you'll have the thousand in your pocket before you start. […] "
  1894, Bret Harte, The Sheriff of Siskyou
  And as soon as we gave them the go to continue, we lost communication.
  2009, Craig Nelson, Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
5. An act; the working or operation.
  Quotations
  Let this suffice, that that same happy night, So gracious were the goes of marriage […]
  1598, John Marston, Pigmalion, The Metamorphosis of Pigmalions Image and Certaine Satyres, 1856, J. O. Halliwell (editor), The Works of John Marston: Reprinted from the Original Editions, Volume 3, page 211
6. (slang, dated) A circumstance or occurrence; an incident, often unexpected.
  Quotations
  “Well, this is a pretty go, is this here! An uncommon pretty go!
  1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, in 1868, The Works of Charles Dickens, Volume 2: Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit, American Notes, page 306
  “Ain't this a rum go? This is a queer sort of dodge for lighting the streets.”
  1869, Punch, volume 57, page 257
  The images of Mrs. Squeers, my daughter, and my son Wackford, all short of vittles, is perpetually before me; every other consideration melts away and vanishes, in front of these; the only number in all arithmetic that I know of, as a husband and a father, is number one, under this here most fatal go!
  1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
  "Supposing now that some of them were to slip into the boat at night and cut the cable, make off with her? That would be a pretty go, that would."
  1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887
  “It’s a rum go and no mistake.”
  2018 February 11, Colin Dexter, Russell Lewis, 01:02:03 from the start, in Endeavour(Cartouche), season 5, episode 2 (TV series), spoken by DCI Fred Thursday (Roger Allam)
7. (dated) The fashion or mode.
  Quotations
  We are blowing each other out of the market with cheapness; but it is all the go, so we must not be behind the age.
  1852, Jane Thomas (née Pinhorn), The London and Paris ladies' magazine of fashion (page 97)
8. (dated) Noisy merriment.
  Quotations
  Gemmen (says he), you all well know The joy there is whene'er we meet; It's what I call the primest go, And rightly named, 'tis—'quite a treat,' […]
  1820, Thomas Moore, W. Simpkin, R. Marshall, Jack Randall's Diary of Proceedings at the House of Call for Genius
9. (slang, archaic) A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
  Quotations
  When the cloth was removed, Mr. Thomas Potter ordered the waiter to bring in two goes of his best Scotch whiskey, with warm water and sugar, and a couple of his "very mildest" Havannas,
  1836, Charles Dickens, Sketches by Boz
  “Then, if you value it so highly,” I said, “you can hardly object to stand half a go of brandy for its recovery.”
  1868 March, In a City Bus, in the Eclectic Magazine, new series volume VII, number 3
10. (dated) A portion
  Quotations
  Albert's uncle had had a jolly good breakfast—fish and eggs and bacon and three goes of marmalade.
  1904, Edith Nesbit, The New Treasure Seekers, Chapter 1
11. (uncountable) Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.
12. (cribbage) The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
13. A period of activity.
  Quotations
  This could mean that the artist traced the illustration in two goes, as it were, or that the Utrecht Psalter slipped while he was tracing, but I do not think that the relative proportions are consistent enough to demonstrate this.
  1995, William Noel, The Harley Psalter, page 65
14. (obsolete, British slang) A dandy; a fashionable person.
  Quotations
  That TOM, who was the GO among the GOES, in the very centre of fashion in London, should have to encounter the vulgar stare of this village; or, that the dairy-maid should leave off skimming her cream to take a peep at our hero, as he mounted his courser, is not at all surprising: and TOM only smiled at this provincial sort of rudeness.
  1881, Pierce Egan, chapter VII, in Tom and Jerry‎, page 136
  He's a go among the goes, is Mr. Kestrel. He's only got to sport a new kind of topper, or tie his crumpler a new way, and every gentry-cove in town does just the same.
  2012, Kate Ross, A Broken Vessel
adjective
not comparable
1. (postpositive, chiefly military and space flight) Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action.
  Quotations
  John Glenn reports all systems are go.
  1962, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the […] Congress, page 2754
  "Life support system is go," said the earphone.
  1964, Instruments and Control Systems
  “Green One has four starts and is go.”
  2011, Matthew Stover, Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor: Star Wars Legends, Del Rey
  “Weapons ready?” Sam and I pull our loaded BB guns out of the bag and slot them into place in the longholsters on our backs.“ Weapons are go,” Sam replied.
  2016, Tim Brewster, Stuck: It's About to Get Very Weird […] , Lulu.com, page 118

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noun
uncountable
1. (board games) A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.

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adjective

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go2

noun

go¹

go²