Definition of "go for"

go for

verb
third-person singular simple present goes for, present participle going for, simple past went for, past participle gone for
1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go,‎ for.
2. (transitive) To try for, to attempt to reach.
3. (transitive) To undertake (an action); to choose an option.
4. (transitive) To attack.
5. (transitive) To develop a strong interest in, especially in a sudden manner; to be infatuated with.
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  Douglas: Well done on passing the test, Jen... Yes, all those clumsy attempts at seduction. Don't tell me you couldn't see through them. They were a test to find out whether you really wanted to work for me or whether you just wanted to come up here for my body.Jen: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, not at all.Douglas: All right.Jen: No, physically you're just not the sort of man I go for.Douglas: Yeah, thanks, Jen.Jen: I go for the classically good-looking men: Blond, broad, and generally clean shaven.Douglas: Alright, yeah, enough of the jibber-jabber!
  2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6
6. To favor, accept; to have a preference for.
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  And the judge and the juryThey all put the blame on meThey wouldn't go for my storyThey wouldn't hear my plea
  1987, “Love in the First Degree”, in Wow!, performed by Bananarama
7. (transitive) To apply equally to.
8. (transitive) To suffice to be used for; to serve as.
  Quotations
  […] every of them, being gold, whole and weight, shall go and be current in payment throughout this his realm for the sum that they were coined for.
  1503, “19 Henry VII. c. 5: Coin”, in A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General Administration of the Law‎, published 1836, page 158
9. (intransitive) To be accepted as.
  Quotations
  The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1 Samuel 17:12

Definition of "go for"

go for

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