great go

See also: great-go

English

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Noun

great go (plural great gos or great goes)

  1. (Britain, college slang, dated) The final examination for a degree.
    • 1844, Puck, page 13:
      Though for Great Go and for Small, I teach Paley, cram and all.
    • 1871 April 28, Morning Advertiser:
      Yes, Mr. Lowe has been plucked for his Great Go.

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References
  • Farmer, John Stephen (1900) The Public School Word-Book‎, London: Hirshfeld Brothers, pages 100–101
  • Farmer, John Stephen (1893) Slang and Its Analogues‎, volume 3, pages 201–202

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for great go in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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