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going to town on

going to town on is the present participle and gerund of go to town on.

Meaning of go to town on

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To devour or consume (something); to enthusiastically or assiduously work on (something); to tear into (something).
    • Is this coming from my role model mother? The shoplifter, the drug addict, the porn star, the whore who let Gene Simmons and Bill Clinton go to town on her?2011 October, Wellesley Wild, “Seahorse Seashell Party”, in Family Guy, season 10, episode 2, spoken by Meg

Questions about going to town on

What is going to town on the present participle and gerund of?
Going to town on is the present participle and gerund of go to town on.

Words near going to town on in the dictionary

  1. going to the trouble
  2. going to the wall
  3. going to the washroom
  4. going to the well
  5. going to town
  6. going to town on
  7. going to war
  8. going to waste
  9. going to water
  10. going to work
  11. going together

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