go around meaning: definition, quotations

go around

verbalso spelled go-around

To move or spread from person to person.

The rumor is going around that Mr. X and Ms. Y are having an affair. There's a cough going around.
“[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

To visit (a place) or with (somebody).

I'm going around to John's house later.

Slang To fight or argue; to obsess over something.

To be shared with everyone.

There's plenty of fish to go around.

Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences To perform a go-around maneuver.

ATC told the flight to go around because another plane was still on the runway.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, around.

Let's make the wheels go around.

Derived terms: go around with, make the world go around, make this world go around, plenty to go around, what goes around comes around, you only go around once, you only go around once in life
Related terms: get around, go round

go-around

noun

Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences An abort of a final approach where the pilot circles the airport to make another attempt at landing.

After the autopilot was disconnected, the aircraft drifted above the glide path, and twice the captain coached the first officer to get the aircraft down to the glide path. The first officer reduced thrust in response to the captain’s first mention to get the aircraft down, and he reduced thrust to idle at about 80 feet agl. Moments later, the captain, aware that the aircraft was left of the centre line but not knowing the distance travelled down the runway, and not sure that a safe landing could be made, ordered a go-around, which the first officer acknowledged. The thrust levers were advanced, the first officer selected the go-around mode for the flight director, and he started to increase the pitch of the aircraft to the command bar indications, 10 degrees nose up. About one second after the first officer acknowledged the go-around, the stick shaker (stall warning) activated.1999 April 15, Transportation Safety Board of Canada, “1.1 History of the Flight”, in Aviation Investigation Report A97H0011, Loss of Control on Go-around (Rejected Landing), Air Canada Canadair CL-600-2B19 C-FSKI, Fredericton Airport, New Brunswick, 16 December 1997, archived from the original on 25 May 2024, page 1:

An iteration; an instance of repeating or redoing something.

The whole issue of male versus female sexuality seems to be an issue we all love to hate each other over. The battle has become an annual event in these pages. I had hoped to stay out of the latest go-around, but I am moved to reply, to her cruel reaction to […]1980 April 12, John Kyper, “Poisoned”, in Gay Community News, page 4: