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went to town on

went to town on is the simple past 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 went to town on

What is went to town on the simple past of?
Went to town on is the simple past of go to town on.

Words near went to town on in the dictionary

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

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