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G — Gnomic to Go (Part 6 of 6)

manner. [Slang] (b) (Card Playing) To bet without having examined the cards.To go one's way, to set forth; to depart.

Go
(Go), n.

1. Act; working; operation. [Obs.]

So gracious were the goes of marriage.
Marston.

2. A circumstance or occurrence; an incident. [Slang]

This is a pretty go.
Dickens.

3. The fashion or mode; as, quite the go. [Colloq.]

4. Noisy merriment; as, a high go. [Colloq.]

5. A glass of spirits. [Slang]

6. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; as, there is no go in him. [Colloq.]

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.

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.]