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go places

go places verb: to make progress or achieve success.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To make progress or achieve success.
    • Herb Alpert’s 50th Album Is Here. What’s Kept Him Going Places? [title]2024 September 16, Jim Farber, “Herb Alpert’s 50th Album Is Here. What’s Kept Him Going Places?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    go far
  2. To travel.

Synonyms of go places

Forms of go places

third-person singular presentgoes places
present participlegoing places
pastwent places
past participlegone places

Questions about go places

What does go places mean?
Go places means to make progress or achieve success.
What part of speech is go places?
Go places is a verb.
What is the past tense of go places?
The past tense of go places is went places.

Words near go places in the dictionary

  1. go phut
  2. go pill
  3. go pills
  4. go piss girl
  5. go pitapat
  6. go places
  7. go platinum
  8. go play in the traffic
  9. go play in traffic
  10. go play with yourself
  11. go poof

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