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go Winchester

go Winchester verb: to run out of ammunition, requiring a return to base.

Verb

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

  1. To run out of ammunition, requiring a return to base.
    • We go Winchester before we go target." Winchester was thirty-thirty, the UHF frequency we used in flight school when we were both flying solo1990, G. C. Hendricks, The second war, page 52
    • He had come from another controller, so he only had two Mavericks and [his wingman] had four Mk-82s, so they went Winchester pretty quick.2007, Steve Call, Danger close: tactical air controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq, page 149

Forms of go Winchester

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

Questions about go Winchester

What does go Winchester mean?
Go Winchester means to run out of ammunition, requiring a return to base.
What part of speech is go Winchester?
Go Winchester is a verb.
What is the past tense of go Winchester?
The past tense of go Winchester is went Winchester.

Words near go Winchester in the dictionary

  1. go whacks
  2. go whistle
  3. go whole hog
  4. go wide
  5. go wild
  6. go Winchester
  7. go with
  8. go with a swing
  9. go with one's gut
  10. go with the flow
  11. go with the flow of traffic

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