gorks are taking over the world! 2. and
GORKin. an alleged hospital chart no-
tation of the diagnosis God only really
knows.(Hospitals.) I see old Mr. Kelly
is in again with a hundred complaints. His
chart says GORK. He’s down with gork
again. 3. tv. to give a patient sedation.
(Hospitals.) Dr. Wilson says to gork the
patient in 226. He’ll quiet down after
we gork him.gorked (out)[gorkt...] mod. heavily se-
dated; knocked out. (Hospitals.) Once
the patient was gorked, he was more co-
operative. The guy in 226 is totally
gorked out now.
Go soak your head!Go to Go chase your-
self!
Go soak yourself!Go to Go chase your-
self!
go sourin. to turn bad or unpleasant.
It looks like all my plans are going sour.
My whole life is going sour right now.
go South and head South 1. in. to make
an escape; to disappear. Lefty went
South the minute he got out of the pen.
The mugger headed South just after the
crime. 2. in. to fall; to go down. (Securi-
ties markets.) All the stock market in-
dexes went South today. The market
headed South today at the opening bell. 3.
in. to quit; to drop out of sight. Fred
got discouraged and went South. I think he
gave up football permanently. After
pulling the bank job, Bart went South for
a few months.
gospel (truth)n. the honest truth. Yo u
gotta believe me. It’s the gospel truth!
He speaks nothing but gospel. You can trust
him.
go straight 1. in. to stop breaking the law.
Lefty thought about going straight once,
but pulled himself out of it. I think I’ll
give all this up and go straight—some day.
- in. to get off drugs. (Drugs.) Ernie
wanted to go straight more than anything
else in the world. I’ll go straight one of
these days.
gotcha[“gatS@] 1. tv. I got you!; I’ve caught
you! (Usually Gotcha!) I gotcha, and
you can’t get away. Ha, ha! Gotcha!
Come here, you little dickens. 2. n. an ar-
rest. (Underworld.) The cop reached
out, grasped Bruno’s shoulder, and made
the gotcha. It was a fair gotcha. Sam was
nabbed, and he went along quietly. 3. tv.
I understand you. Gotcha! Thanks for
telling me. Seven pounds, four ounces?
Gotcha! I’ll tell everybody.
go the limitin. to do as much as possible;
to get as much as possible. Let’s plan to
do everything we can. Let’s go the limit.
We’ll go the limit. To heck with the cost.
go through someone like a dose of (the)
saltsin. to move through someone’s di-
gestive tract like a strong laxative. That
stuff they served last night went through
me like a dose of salts. Careful of the
coffee. It’ll go through you like a dose of the
salts.
go through the changes 1. in. to experi-
ence life’s changes. A good day, a bad
day—it’s all part of going through the
changes. Nothing new with me, just go-
ing through the changes. 2. in. to go
through a reconstruction of one’s life.
I went through the changes all last year. It
was a real bad time. I’ve been going
through the changes lately. It’s tough to
grow up at this age.
go tits upin. to die; to go to ruin; to fall
apart. (A play on go belly upwhich has
the same meaning. Refers to an animal
like a goldfish that turns belly up when
it dies.) Her firm went tits up after the
stock market crash. My goldfish went
tits up because I overfed it.
Go to!exclam. Go to hell! Oh, you’re ter-
rible. Just go to! Go to, you creep!
Go to blazes! and Go to the devil!ex-
clam. Go to hell! Go to blazes! Stop pes-
tering me! I’m sick of your complaining.
Go to the devil!
Go to the devil!Go to Go to blazes!
go to townin. to do something with gusto;
to do something with great speed and en-
ergy. The main office is really going to
town on collecting overdue payments.
Man, our team is really going to town.
Go to your room!Go to On your bike!gorked (out)