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. (intransitive) To move or spread from person to person.
   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     “ […] 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. (intransitive) To visit (a place) or with (somebody).

   I'm going around to John's house later.

3. (intransitive) To be shared with everyone.

   There's plenty of fish to go around.

4. (intransitive, aviation) To perform a go-around maneuver.

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

5. 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