'To go to rack' definitions:
Definition of 'To go to rack'
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- Rack \Rack\, n. [See Wreck.] A wreck; destruction. [Obs., except in a few phrases.] [1913 Webster]
- Rack and ruin, destruction; utter ruin. [Colloq.]
- To go to rack, to perish; to be destroyed. [Colloq.] "All goes to rack." --Pepys. [1913 Webster]