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Verb

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call a go (third-person singular simple present calls a go, present participle calling a go, simple past and past participle called a go)

  1. (slang, obsolete) To give up and desist; call it a day.
    • 1866, The United Service Magazine, page 114:
      At this he called a go, saying, “You have learnt quite enough for one lesson.”

References

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  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary