go both ways
verb1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, both, ways.
- [...] people generally went by the railroad; that is, decidedly more than went on the dirt road. Witness had seen men go both ways.1907, The Southwestern Reporter, page 571:
2
Informal To be, or be in, a mutual or reciprocal relationship or obligation.
- empathy goes both ways
3
Informal To be bisexual.
- I have a straight bitch in the telly going both ways.2004, “How We Do”, in Jayceon Taylor, Mike Elizondo, Curtis J. Jackson, Andre R. Young (lyrics), Andre R. Young and Mike Elizondo (music), The Documentary, performed by The Game (featuring 50 Cent), G-Unit Records:
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Especially, Informal, Of a gay man To be versatile, able to act as either a top or a bottom.
- When Mark sought my supervision, I taught him the terms top and bottom and explained that gay men usually self-identify as either one or the other. Some men go both ways—calling themselves "versatile"—[…]2011, Joe Kort, Gay Affirmative Therapy for the Straight Clinician, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 180:
- Related terms
- swing both ways, cut both ways, have it both ways