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go
verb [I not continuous] (BE EXPRESSED) /ɡəʊ/
/ɡoʊ/ (present participle going, past tense went, past participle gone)Definition
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B2 to be expressed, sung, or played: I can never remember how that song goes. "Doesn't it go something like this?" said Joan, and played the first couple of bars on her guitar. [+ (that)] The story goes (= people say) (that) he was sacked after he was caught stealing company property. A headless ghost walks the castle at night - or so the story goes (= so people say).Playing musicSinging in general
(Definition of go verb (BE EXPRESSED) from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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