Meanings
- A crowdfunding website that allows people to raise money.
The two Americans, Jacob Harlan and Alyssa Petersen, were detained late last month and are being held in Zhenjiang, a town in Jiangsu Province, according to GoFundMe pages set up by friends and relatives.
2019 October 17, Amy Qin, “China Detains 2 Americans Amid Growing Scrutiny of Foreigners”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Oct 2019, Asia Pacific
plural GoFundMes
- InternetA fundraiser on this website.
A group of students known as the Yang Welfare Collective (YWC) have banded together to start a GoFundMe for the impoverished chancellor, and donations are already flowing in.
2022 January 27, Sam Franzini, “$580k Not Enough: Generous Students Start GoFundMe for Needy Yang”, in Daily Nexus1 more example
More recently, the platform [Spotify] has announced plans to introduce a ‘Merch Hub’ – listeners will be able buy^([sic]) merch from their favourite musicians within the app, while musicians themselves can directly link to their CashApps or GoFundMes.
2024, Cher Tan, Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging, Sydney, N.S.W.: NewSouth Publishing, →ISBN
Origin
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GoFundMe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/GoFundMe
“GoFundMe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/GoFundMe. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “GoFundMe,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/GoFundMe.
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