Meanings
verbgo to town on (third-person singular simple present goes to town on, present participle going to town on, simple past went to town on, past participle gone to town on)
present singular third person goes to town on · participle present going to town on · past went to town on · participle past gone to town on
- idiomaticTo devour or consume (something); to enthusiastically or assiduously work on (something); to tear into (something).
Is this coming from my role model mother? The shoplifter, the drug addict, the porn star, the whore who let Gene Simmons and Bill Clinton go to town on her?
2011 October, Wellesley Wild, “Seahorse Seashell Party”, in Family Guy, season 10, episode 2, spoken by Meg
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