go \go\, n.
   1. act; working; operation. obs.
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            so gracious were the goes of marriage. --marston.
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   2. a circumstance or occurrence; an incident. slang
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            this is a pretty go.                  --dickens.
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   3. the fashion or mode; as, quite the go. colloq.
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   4. noisy merriment; as, a high go. colloq.
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   5. a glass of spirits. slang
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   6. power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance;
      push; as, there is no go in him. colloq.
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   7. cribbage that condition in the course of the game when a
      player can not lay down a card which will not carry the
      aggregate count above thirty-one.
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   8. something that goes or is successful; a success; as, he
      made a go of it; also, an agreement.

            "well," said fleming, "is it a go?"   --bret harte.
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   great go, little go, the final and the preliminary
      examinations for a degree. slang, eng. univ.

   no go, a failure; a fiasco. slang --thackeray.

   on the go, moving about; unsettled. colloq.
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see also:
great go little go no go on the go 

25 moby thesaurus words for "no go":
   aimless, bankruptcy, defeat, failure, feckless, futility,
   ill success, impossible, impotent, ineffective, ineffectual,
   losing game, meaningless, nonaccomplishment, nonsuccess, of no use,
   pointless, purposeless, successlessness, superfluous, unavailing,
   unsuccess, unsuccessfulness, useless, uselessness