Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

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I’ve just got gobs of it if you need some. 
I need gobs of money to get through school.

go bananasin. to go mildly crazy. (See also
bananas.) Sorry, I just went bananas
for a minute. I thought he was going to
go bananas.


gobbledygook[“gabldigUk] 1. n. nonsense;
officialese or government gibberish. I
can’t understand all this gobbledygook. 
They must have a full time staff to dream
up all this gobbledygook. 2. n. any mess,
especially of food. Dinner was just gob-
bledygook again. Do we have the same
old gobbledygook tonight?


go belly upGo to turn belly up.


go bitchcakesin. to go wild or crazy.
(Usually objectionable.) All this rude
talk just makes me go bitchcakes.


go blooey and go flooey[go “blui and go
“flui] in. to fall apart; to go out of order.
Suddenly, all my plans went blooey. 
I just hope everything doesn’t go f looey at
the last minute.


(Go) blow it out your ear!exclam. Go
away and stop bothering me with your
nonsense. What a stupid thing to say.
Go blow it out your ear! You are not way
rad, you’re just way out, twit! Blow it out
your ear!


go-by[“gobaI] n. an instance of ignoring or
passing by (someone). (See also give
someone the go-by.) I got the go-by
from her every time I saw her. I find
the go-by very insulting.


Go chase yourself! and Go chase your
tail!; Go climb a tree!; Go fly a kite!;
Go fry an egg!; Go jump in the lake!;
Go soak your head!; Go soak your-
self!exclam. Beat it!; Go away! Oh, go
chase yourself! Get out of my face! Go
soak your head! You’re a pain in the neck.


Go chase your tail!Go to Go chase your-
self!


Go climb a tree!Go to Go chase yourself!


go down 1. in. to happen. Hey, man!
What’s going down? Something strange
is going down around here. 2. in. to be ac-
cepted. (See also swallow.) We’ ll jus t


have to wait awhile to see how all this goes
down. The proposal didn’t go down very
well with the manager. 3. in. to be ar-
rested. (Underworld.) Lefty didn’t want
to go down for a job he didn’t do. Mr.
Big said that somebody had to go down for
it, and he didn’t care who.
go downhillin. to decline. This company
is going downhill at a great rate. Things
began to go downhill when the county cut
the maintenance budget.
go down in flamesin. to fail spectacularly.
(See also shoot someone down in
flames; crash and burn.) The whole
team went down in f lames. I’d hate for
all your planning to go down in f lames.
go down on someonein. to perform oral
sex on someone. (Usually objectionable.)
She was just gonna go down on him
when the camera panned over to the
window.
go down the chuteGo to go down the
tube(s).
go down the linein. to snort a line of co-
caine. (Drugs.) Gert had to leave the of-
fice to go down the line. They found her
in the john, going down the line.
go down the tube(s) and go down the
chutein. to fail totally; to be ruined. 
The whole project is likely to go down the
tubes. All my plans just went down the
chute.
God’s acren. a cemetery. When I end
up in God’s acre, I want everything to go
on without me. They’re planting some-
body new in God’s acre.
go Dutchin. [for two people] to split the
cost of something, such as a meal. (See
also Dutch treat.) How about dinner
tonight? We’ll go Dutch, okay? Yes, let’s
go Dutch.
goferGo to gopher.
Go figure.interj. Try to figure it out.; Just
try to explain that! She hung up on me
again. Go figure. They heat the water to
make the tea hot, then they put ice in it to
make it cold, then they put lemon in it to
make it sour, and then they put sugar in
it to make it sweet. Go figure.

Go figure.
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