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go-along

go-along noun: an ethnographic method involving meeting and walking with members of the community being studied.

Noun

go-along (plural go-alongs)

  1. An ethnographic method involving meeting and walking with members of the community being studied.
  2. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A 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

Forms of go-along

pluralgo-alongs

Questions about go-along

What does go-along mean?
Go-along means an ethnographic method involving meeting and walking with members of the community being studied.
What part of speech is go-along?
Go-along is a noun.
What is the plural of go-along?
The plural of go-along is go-alongs.

Words near go-along in the dictionary

  1. go'on
  2. go-ahead
  3. go-aheadative
  4. go-aheadativeness
  5. go-aheads
  6. go-along
  7. go-alongs
  8. go-around
  9. go-arounds
  10. go-as-you-please
  11. go-away bird

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