no-go

1. not comparableNot functioning properly.
2. not comparableNot to be entered.

   They lived in a no-go part of the ghetto.

   5 more examples

   The noise and drunkenness made the area a no-go zone at night for families.

   Many of these areas have become no go for investment

   2001 March 11, “Boost for local entrepreneurs.”, in Sunday Business, London, UK

   The key resisting areas have effectively become no go

   2004 January 29, Freeman, “Deconstructing the risk business in Iraq”, in Irish Independent

   Two pubs in the Pontardawe area which had previously been hubs of local social life had become "no-go" through being frequented by the gang.

   2010 July 2, “Jail for drug network that supplied the Swansea Valley”, in BBC News

   The Great Western opened a Paddington station in 1838, a wooden terminus to the north of the present station, which would arrive in 1853. As with Euston, the site was bounded to the south by high-class property, a no-go zone for railways.

   2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 14

3. not comparablebusinessThat should not go (i.e., enter or engage) if the size of the part being measured is properly achieved.

   no-go gauge

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   This bore is no good: the no-go pin is flying right into the first half of it.

plural no-gos · plural no-goes

1. colloquialby ellipsisbusinessA no-go gauge.

   There's your problem right there. See how that no-go slips right into the hole? The whole thing is scrap, unfortunately.

2. alternativeAlternative form of no go.