great go
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great go (plural great gos or great goes)
- (UK, university 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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- Farmer, John Stephen (1900) The Public School Word-Book[1], London: Hirshfeld Brothers, pages 100–101
- John S[tephen] Farmer; W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, compilers (1893) “great go”, in Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present. […], volume III, [London: […] Harrison and Sons] […], →OCLC, pages 201–202.
- “great”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.