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no-go
Also no go.
[A n. use of the phrase no go: see go n.1 8.]
a. An impracticable situation; an impasse; an indecisive contest, etc. Freq. attrib.
1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 150 They have..arrived at a happy positivism as to its structure, though at the risk of bringing it to a no-go. 1884Western Daily Press 16 Apr. 7/2 The first ‘fly’ resulted in a ‘no go’. 1946Ann. Computation Lab. Harvard Univ. I. 26 If..the calculator finds that all multiples of the divisor are greater than the dividend or the remainder under consideration, a zero or ‘no-go’ is entered in the quotient counter and a new comparison made one column to the right. 1961Flight LXXX. 542/1 A self-checking capability was therefore built into the machine so that, whenever a ‘No Go’ condition occurred, this part..carried out a self-checking routine to ensure that the fault was in the aircraft and not in the tester. 1962A. Shepard in Into Orbit 170 When a particular station is on a ‘No Go’ status, the appropriate symbol lights up to indicate which of the several systems there is non-operative. 1966Electronics 17 Oct. 93 Usually one test was sufficient to provide a go or no-go indication. 1969Guardian 14 June 7/3 The astronauts would have had to end the mission there for, in space jargon, this was potentially a ‘no-go’ situation.
b. Used attrib. of an area: impossible to enter (because of barricades, etc.); to which entry is forbidden for specified persons, groups, etc.
1971Guardian 13 Nov. 1/6 For journalists and others, the Bogside and Creggan estates are ‘no-go’ areas, with the IRA in total effective control. 1972Times 24 May 16/1 The UDA organized the Protestant ‘no go’ areas in Belfast last weekend. 1972Guardian 29 May 8/1 The Duke of Norfolk has decreed the Royal Enclosure at Ascot a ‘no-go’ area for the miniskirted or hotpanted lass. 1972Times 3 June 2/7 Gypsy Council Names Four ‘No-Go’ Districts. The first four English boroughs likely to be designated as ‘no go’ areas for gypsies were named yesterday. 1972Daily Tel. 11 Nov. 2/5 As a result, soldiers have been injured in rioting in the former ‘no go’ areas. 1974Times 12 Feb. 2/8 Since the dispersal of the IRA leadership from inside the city to Donegal, after the British Army moved into the ‘no-go areas’ in 1972.
So no-goism. nonce-wd.
1850Dickens Lett. (1880) I. 220 As to two comic articles..out of me, that's the intensest extreme of no-goism. |