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go around en · VERB

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To move or spread from person to person.
   • The rumor is going around that Mr. X and Ms. Y are having an affair. There's a cough going around.
   • “[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]” 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
2. (intransitive) To visit (a place) or with (somebody).
   • I'm going around to John's house later.
3. (intransitive, slang) To fight or argue; to obsess over something.
4. (intransitive) To be shared with everyone.
   • There's plenty of fish to go around.
5. (intransitive) To perform a go-around maneuver.
   • ATC told the flight to go around because another plane was still on the runway.
6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, around.
   • Let's make the wheels go around.

Forms

Deriveds

you only go around once in life · what goes around comes around · plenty to go around · you only go around once · go around with · make the world go around · make this world go around

Relateds

get around · go round

Translations (13)

es dar la vuelta alrededor de (literally) · es cundir (to move or spread) · pl przenosić się (to move or spread) · pl przemieszczać się (to move or spread) · pl przenieść się (to move or spread) · pl ominąć (literally) · es ir alrededor de (literally) · pl ruszać się (to move or spread) · pl przemieścić się (to move or spread) · pl omijać (literally) · pl kręcić się (to move or spread) · pl obchodzić (literally) · pl obejść (literally)