go both ways

present singular third person goes both ways · participle present going both ways · past went both ways · participle past gone both ways

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, both, ways.

   [...] people generally went by the railroad; that is, decidedly more than went on the dirt road. Witness had seen men go both ways.

   1907, The Southwestern Reporter, page 571

2. informalTo be, or be in, a mutual or reciprocal relationship or obligation.

   empathy goes both ways

3. informalTo be bisexual.

   I have a straight bitch in the telly going both ways.

   2004, “How We Do”, in Jayceon Taylor, Mike Elizondo, Curtis J. Jackson, Andre R. Young (lyrics), Andre R. Young and Mike Elizondo (music), The Documentary, performed by The Game (featuring 50 Cent), G-Unit Records

   Synonyms: bat for both sides, swing both ways

4. especiallyinformalTo be versatile, able to act as either a top or a bottom.

   When Mark sought my supervision, I taught him the terms top and bottom and explained that gay men usually self-identify as either one or the other. Some men go both ways—calling themselves "versatile"—[…]

   2011, Joe Kort, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 180