went 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)...