Lexic.us

Definition of Go around

1. Verb. Be sufficient. "There's not enough to go around"

2. Verb. Become widely known and passed on. "The story went around in the office"

3. Verb. Go around the flank of (an opposing army).

4. Verb. Turn on or around an axis or a center. "The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire"

5. Verb. Avoid something unpleasant or laborious. "You cannot bypass these rules!"

Definition of Go around

1. Verb. To spread from person to person. ¹

2. Verb. To share with everyone. ¹

3. Verb. (aviation) to perform a go-around maneuver ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Go Around

go about go across go after go against go against the grain go ahead go all out go along go along for the ride go along to get along

go along with go along with the gag go ape go around (current term) go away go awry go back go back on go bad go ballistic

go bananas go bankrupt go begging go belly-up go blue go board

Literary usage of Go around

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... and this year had attempted in company with half a dozen students and local guides to go around ..."

2. Eminent Women of the Age: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the by James Parton (1868)
"For me, I keep my gloves as long as the backs hold together, and go around for forty-five weeks of the fifty-two with my hands clenched into fists to cover ..."

3. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session by William Pitt Fessenden, Thaddeus Stevens (1866)
"The negroes who are working the best are those who have been permitted heretofore to hire their «wn time and go around and work for themselves, ..."

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