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going country

going country is the present participle and gerund of go country.

Meaning of go country

Verb

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

  1. (Canada, US, especially) To adopt or further embrace the culture of country life or country music.
    • He's gone country
      Everybody's gone country
      Yeah, we've gone country
      The whole world's gone country1994, Bob McDill, “Gone Country”, in Who I Am, performed by Alan Jackson
  2. (UK, slang) To take part in a county line scheme for drug distribution.
    • Experts think many of the children who go missing every year in this country may have actually have "gone country". In one London borough, Lewisham, the local authority believes half of its missing children have been groomed to carry drugs.2016, Allegra Stratton, Going country': ITV News reveals scale of children being exploited and sent around Britain to carry drugs (ITV News)...

Questions about going country

What is going country the present participle and gerund of?
Going country is the present participle and gerund of go country.

Words near going country in the dictionary

  1. going chapter 11
  2. going cheap
  3. going commando
  4. going concern
  5. going concerns
  6. going country
  7. going crazy
  8. going cunch
  9. going dark
  10. going deep
  11. going down

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