go hard
verb1
To strive to one's utmost; to give one's all in an endeavour, at sport, etc.
- If the battle cry of our government’s response to the global financial crisis was “go early, go hard, go households”, this government’s approach to the current crisis seems to be “go late, go half-measures, and go ... well ... go to Hillsong”.2020 March 16, Kevin Rudd, “The government's coronavirus crisis approach is 'go late, go half-measures, and go to Hillsong'”, in The Guardian:
- Did you hear this band's new album? Yeah, it went hard af!
- This pic goes hard. Feel free to screenshot.
3
Slang To have sex vigorously.
4
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, hard.
- I wanted to eat some bread but it had gone hard.
- Derived terms
- go hard or go home, go hard with someone, go harder, go hard in the paint, go the hardest
- Related terms
- go ham