high-go

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high-go

  1. (archaic, slang) A spree; a revel.
    • 1840, R[ichard] H[enry] D[ana], Jr., chapter XXVII, in Two Years before the Mast.  (Harper’s Family Library; no. CVI), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers , →OCLC:
      The last night they kept it up in great style, and were getting into a high-go, when the captain called us off to go aboard, for, it being south-easter season, he was afraid to remain on shore long; and it was well he did not, for that very night, we slipped our cables, as a crowner to our fun ashore, and stood off before a south-easter, which lasted twelve hours, and returned to our anchorage the next day.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “high-go”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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