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go for en · VERB

Meanings

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, for.
   • Tickets are going for upwards of $100.
   • If John goes for three days without sleep, he will be very tired.
   • I've gotta go for a job interview next Mon.
   • I need to go for a checkup at the clinic.
   • I'll go for some milk.
2. (transitive) To try for, to attempt to reach.
   • Go for it!
   • I'll go for the world record.
3. (transitive) To undertake (an action); to choose an option.
   • I'll go for a swim if it's warm enough.
   • His phone was off and I couldn't ask his permission, so I decided to just go for it.
   • I went for the pay-as-you-go plan.
4. (transitive) To attack.
   • Careful, he'll go for your throat!
5. (transitive) To develop a strong interest in, especially in a sudden manner; to be infatuated with.
   • Douglas: Well done on passing the test, Jen... Yes, all those clumsy attempts at seduction. Don't tell me you couldn't see through them. They were a test to find out whether you really wanted to work for me or whether you just wanted to come up here for my body. Jen: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, not at all. Douglas: All right. Jen: No, physically you're just not the sort of man I go for. Douglas: Yeah, thanks, Jen. Jen: I go for the classically good-looking men: Blond, broad, and generally clean shaven. Douglas: Alright, yeah, enough of the jibber-jabber! 2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6
   • Clyde took one look at Bonnie and really went for her.
6. (transitive) To favor, accept; to have a preference for.
   • Management won't go for such a risky project now.
   • Do you want to climb the mountain with me? Yeah, I could go for that.
   • And the judge and the jury They all put the blame on me They wouldn't go for my story They wouldn't hear my plea 1987, “Love in the First Degree”, in Wow!, performed by Bananarama:
7. (informal, transitive) To fall for (a trick)
8. (transitive) To apply equally to.
   • Stop taking my food from the fridge! That goes for you too, Nick!
   • What I'm about to say goes for all of you.
   • My wife hates football, and that goes for me as well.
9. (transitive) To suffice to be used for; to serve as.
   • It's a desk that goes for a dresser too.
   • […] every of them, being gold, whole and weight, shall go and be current in payment throughout this his realm for the sum that they were coined for. 1503, “19 Henry VII. c. 5: Coin”, in A Collection of Statutes Connected with the General Administration of the Law, published 1836, page 158:
10. (intransitive) To be accepted as.
    • The man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul. 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Samuel 17:12:
11. (idiomatic, transitive) To cost.
    • Here in Texas, gas can go for as little as two dollars a gallon.

Forms

Deriveds

go for the jugular

Translations (39)

pl zdecydować się na (to favor, accept) · pl przedsięwziąć (to undertake (an action)) · fi tavoitella (to try for something) · sv gå efter (to go somewhere in order to get something) · pl próbować (to try for something) · it tentare (to try for something) · fi ihastua (to develop a strong interest in) · pl wybierać (to favor, accept) · pt atacar (to attack something) · fi koskea (to apply equally to) · pl atakować (to attack something) · fi yrittää iskeä (to attack something) · pl decydować się na (to favor, accept) · pl spróbować (to try for something) · pl tyczyć się (to apply equally to) · pl zaatakować (to attack something) · it provare (to try for something) · pl przedsiębrać (to undertake (an action)) · pl interesować się (to develop a strong interest in) · pt tentar (to try for something) · fi lähteä mukaan (to favor, accept) · pl wybrać (to favor, accept) · pl pójść po (to go somewhere in order to get something) · pl iść po (to go somewhere in order to get something) · fi innostua (to develop a strong interest in) · fi noutaa (to go somewhere in order to get something) · fi käydä hakemassa (to go somewhere in order to get something) · pl dotyczyć (to apply equally to) · no gå for (to try for something) · fi hakea (to go somewhere in order to get something) · fi yrittää (to try for something) · fi hyökätä (to attack something) · fi tehdä (to undertake (an action)) · pl podejmować się (to undertake (an action)) · pl preferować (to favor, accept) · cmn 攻击 (to attack something) · pl lubić (to develop a strong interest in) · fi päteä (to apply equally to) · pl podjąć się (to undertake (an action))