go-along

plural go-alongs

1. An ethnographic method involving meeting and walking with members of the community being studied.
2. UKobsoletethieves' cantA person duped into accompanying thieves during a robbery.

   A boy called Hewitt, awaiting transportation on the Euryalus hulk in the mid-1830s, told an interviewer that the swell-mob would often call into lodging-houses in order to recruit "go-alongs" for thieving expeditions: "boys are delighted [they] think it an honour to go with a swell-mob".

   2002, Meg Arnot, Cornelie Usborne, Gender And Crime in Modern Europe, page 82