go for

Verb

go for (third-person singular simple present goes for, present participle going for, simple past went for, past participle gone for)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, for.
   • I'll go for some milk.
   • If John goes for three days without sleep, he will be very tired.
2. (transitive) To try for, to attempt to reach.
   • I'll go for the world record.
   • Go for it!
3. (transitive) To undertake (an action); to choose an option.
   • 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. (transitive) To attack.
   • Careful, he'll go for your throat!
5. (transitive) To develop a strong interest in, especially in a sudden manner; to be infatuated with.
   • 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...2007 September 28, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 2, Episode 6
   • Clyde took one look at Bonnie and really went for her.
6. (transitive) To favor, accept; to have a preference for.
   • Management won't go for such a risky project now.
   • Do you want to climb the mountain with me?
     Yeah, I could go for that.
7. (informal, transitive) To fall for (a trick)
8. (transitive) To apply equally to.
   • Stop taking my food from the fridge! That goes for you too, Nick!
   • What I'm about to say goes for all of you.
9. (transitive) To suffice to be used for; to serve as.
   • It's a desk that goes for a dresser too.
   • […] 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. (intransitive) To 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. (idiomatic, transitive) To cost.
    • Here in Texas, gas can go for as little as two dollars a gallon.