go for

present singular third person goes for · participle present going for · past went for · participle past gone for

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

   I'll go for some milk.

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   If John goes for three days without sleep, he will be very tired.

   I need to go for a checkup at the clinic.

   Tickets are going for upwards of $100.

   I've gotta go for a job interview next Mon.

2. transitiveTo try for, to attempt to reach.

   Go for it!

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   I'll go for the world record.

3. transitiveTo undertake (an action); to choose an option.

   I went for the pay-as-you-go plan.

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   His phone was off and I couldn't ask his permission, so I decided to just go for it.

   I'll go for a swim if it's warm enough.

4. transitiveTo attack.

   Careful, he'll go for your throat!

5. transitiveTo develop a strong interest in, especially in a sudden manner; to be infatuated with.

   Clyde took one look at Bonnie and really went for her.

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   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

6. transitiveTo favor, accept; to have a preference for.

   Management won't go for such a risky project now.

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   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. informaltransitiveTo fall for (a trick)
8. transitiveTo apply equally to.

   What I'm about to say goes for all of you.

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   Stop taking my food from the fridge! That goes for you too, Nick!

   My wife hates football, and that goes for me as well.

9. transitiveTo suffice to be used for; to serve as.

   It's a desk that goes for a dresser too.

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   […] 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. intransitiveTo 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. idiomatictransitiveTo cost.

    Here in Texas, gas can go for as little as two dollars a gallon.