'No go' definitions:

Definition of 'No go'

From: GCIDE
  • Go \Go\, n.
  • 1. Act; working; operation. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
  • So gracious were the goes of marriage. --Marston. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A circumstance or occurrence; an incident. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
  • This is a pretty go. --Dickens. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The fashion or mode; as, quite the go. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Noisy merriment; as, a high go. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A glass of spirits. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; as, there is no go in him. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  • 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.] [1913 Webster]

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