go to bed

Verb

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

1. To lie down to sleep, put oneself in one's bed.
   • I go to sleep at the same hour every night, no matter when I go to bed.
   • I think I'll just go to bed, it's bedtime for me.

   Synonyms:

   hit the sack, hit the hay, hit the rack

2. (euphemistic) To have sex; to go to have sex.
   • Has he ever been to bed with her?

   Synonyms:

   couch a hogshead, go to sleep, bed down, hit the hay, hit the sack, retire, seek one's virtuous couch, turn in, turn into a pumpkin

3. Of a newspaper: to finish being prepared for printing.
   • The army newspaper "went to bed" several hours before the civilian one, […]1949, Max Eisen, How to Increase Daily Newspaper Circulation, page 43
   • So gone are the days when a Vanguard reporter who had gone to cover an assignment in Victoria Island may not get to his office at Kirikiri before the newspaper went to bed because the reporter was held back by the usual Lagos traffic jam.2007, Ikechukwu Enoch Nwosu, E. O. Soola, Communication in Global, ICTs and Ecosystem Perspectives, page 238