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gone to town on

gone to town on is the past participle 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 gone to town on

What is gone to town on the past participle of?
Gone to town on is the past participle of go to town on.

Words near gone to town on in the dictionary

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

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