go around

go around

See also: go-around

English

Verb

go around (third-person singular simple present goes around, present participle going around, simple past went around, past participle gone around)

1. To move or spread from person to person.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     “[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”

   The rumor is going around that Mr. X and Ms. Y are having an affair.   There's a cough going around.

2. To share with everyone.

   There's plenty of fish to go around.

3. (aviation) To perform a go-around maneuver.

   ATC told the flight to go around because another plane was still on the runway.

4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go,‎ around.

   Let's make the wheels go around.

Derived terms

• make the world go around
• make this world go around
• what goes around comes around
• you only go around once
• you only go around once in life

 

Related terms

• get around
• go round