Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
great go, under go, n.
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Examples
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University held and exercised the privileges of infang-thief and outfang-thief, and other such old-world rights, there must have been a place somewhere within the liberties devoted to examinations even more exciting than the great-go.
Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859
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I shall never pass my great-go when I get to college. "
The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias George Manville Fenn 1870
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