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go-around, n. Chiefly U.S.|ˈgəʊəraʊnd|
[f. vbl. phr. to go around: see go v. 74.]
1. a. = run-around n. 2. Esp. in phr. to give (someone) the go-around. Cf. go-by n. colloq.
1929Amer. Speech V. 152 To give the go-around, to avoid a person. ‘He gave me the go-around.’ 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §214/1 Evasion,..go-around. Ibid. §352/1 Slight; snub,..the merry go-around. a1961D. Carnes in Webster s.v., He's been giving us the go-around.
b. A confrontation, argument, encounter; a bout or round. colloq.
a1961D. Tracy in Webster s.v., Tried to tell them that this was a lousy way to treat a member of the family, and after a real go-around he had won. 1972Fredrickson & East Silence of North xxi. 194, I had a real go-around with a big grizzly this last spring. 1988‘Batman’ Death in Family (1989) iii. 22 One go-around with you was plenty for me, Shiva.
2. Aeronaut. An act of flying in a circle back to a former position, esp. after an aborted landing.
1956W. A. Heflin U.S. Air Force Dict. 233/2 Go-around, an instance of going around a traffic pattern. 1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 118 When the runway was blocked by a plane on the ground, I had to make a go-around. 1985New Yorker 26 Aug. 36/1, I..push the throttle in for a go-around. 1991Times 9 May 2/3 Captain Stewart had made only two overshoots or ‘go-arounds’ in his flying career. |