1876. Besant and Rice, Golden Butterfly, Prologue ii. The very dice on the counter with which the bar-keeper used to go the miners for drinks.
1877. S. L. Clemens (M. Twain), Life on the Mississippi, ch. xliii., p. 390. There’s one thing in this world which a person won’t take in pine if he can go walnut; and won’t take in walnut if he can go mahogany.… That’s a coffin.
c. 1882. Comic Song, ‘The West End Boys,’ verse 3. Another bitter I really can’t go.
1887. World, 20 Apr., p. 8. While making up his mind, apparently whether he would go ‘three’ or ‘Nap.’
4. (racing).—To ride to hounds.
1884. Hawley Smart, From Post to Finish, p. 219. There would be far too many there who had seen Gerald Rockingham go with the York and Ainstey not to at once know that he and Jim Forrest were identical.
5. (colloquial).—To be pregnant.
1561–1626. Bacon, (quoted by Dr. Johnson). Women go commonly nine months, the cow and ewe about six months.
1601. Shakspeare, Henry VIII., iv., 1. Great bellied women that had not half a week to go.
Go down, verb. phr. (colloquial).—1. To be accepted, received, or swallowed; to wash (q.v.).