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Noun
go-along (plural go-alongs)
- An ethnographic method involving meeting and walking with members of the community being studied.
- (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A person duped into accompanying thieves during a robbery.
2002, Meg Arnot, Cornelie Usborne, Gender And Crime in Modern Europe, page 82:A boy called Hewitt, awaiting transportation on the Euryalus hulk in the mid-1830s, told an interviewer that the swell-mob would often call into lodging-houses in order to recruit "go-alongs" for thieving expeditions: "boys are delighted [they] think it an honour to go with a swell-mob".
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) “Go along, a fool, a cully, one of the most contemptuous terms in a thieves' vocabulary.”, in The Slang Dictionary
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