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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
go country en · VERB
Meanings
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(Canada, US, especially) To adopt or further embrace the culture of country life or country music.
He's gone country
Everybody's gone country
Yeah, we've gone country
The whole world's gone country
1994, Bob McDill, “Gone Country”, in Who I Am, performed by Alan Jackson:
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(UK, slang) To take part in a county line scheme for drug distribution.
2016, Allegra Stratton, Going country': ITV News reveals scale of children being exploited and sent around Britain to carry drugs (ITV News) https://www.itv.com/news/2016-09-29/going-country-itv-news-reveals-the-scale-of-children-being-exploited-and-sent-around-britain-to-carry-drugs
Experts think many of the children who go missing every year in this country may have actually have "gone country". In one London borough, Lewisham, the local authority believes half of its missing children have been groomed to carry drugs.
For five days "I didn't know if he was alive", says Jenny. Then she saw on a social media chat group Robbie's friends saying he had "gone country". She discovered it was a phrase often used to describe county lines. "That's when it all clicked," she says, realising he was in an organised crime gang.
2022, Steve Swann, County lines: Inside the complex battle against drug gangs exploiting children, BBC News:
Forms
Coordinates
go Hollywood
Relateds
countrylike · countryish · go cunch · countrify