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gone country

gone country is the past participle 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 gone country

What is gone country the past participle of?
Gone country is the past participle of go country.

Words near gone country in the dictionary

  1. gone chapter 11
  2. gone cheap
  3. gone commando
  4. gone coon
  5. gone coons
  6. gone country
  7. gone crazy
  8. gone cunch
  9. gone dark
  10. gone deep
  11. gone down

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