Adjective

no-go (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#NOGOCategory:English adjectives#NOGOCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#NOGOCategory:English multiword terms#NOGOCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NOGOCategory:Pages with entries#NO-GOCategory:Pages with 1 entry#NO-GO

1. Not functioning properly.
2. (of a place) Not to be entered.

   They lived in a no-go part of the ghetto.Category:English terms with usage examples#NOGO

   The noise and drunkenness made the area a no-go zone at night for families.Category:English terms with usage examples#NOGO

   • 2001 March 11, “Boost for local entrepreneurs.”, in Sunday Business, London, UK:

     Many of these areas have become no go for investment

     Category:English terms with quotations#NOGO

   • 2004 January 29, Freeman, “Deconstructing the risk business in Iraq”, in Irish Independent:

     The key resisting areas have effectively become no go

     Category:English terms with quotations#NOGO

   • 2010 July 2, “Jail for drug network that supplied the Swansea Valley”, in BBC News:

     Two pubs in the Pontardawe area which had previously been hubs of local social life had become "no-go" through being frequented by the gang.

     Category:English terms with quotations#NOGO

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 14:

     The Great Western opened a Paddington station in 1838, a wooden terminus to the north of the present station, which would arrive in 1853. As with Euston, the site was bounded to the south by high-class property, a no-go zone for railways.

     Category:English terms with quotations#NOGO

3. (manufacturingCategory:en:Manufacturing#NOGO, of a gauge) That should not go (i.e., enter or engage) if the size of the part being measured is properly achieved.

   no-go gaugeCategory:English terms with collocations#NOGO

   This bore is no good: the no-go pin is flying right into the first half of it.Category:English terms with usage examples#NOGO

Noun

no-go (plural no-gos or no-goes)Category:English lemmas#NOGOCategory:English nouns#NOGOCategory:English countable nouns#NOGOCategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#NOGOCategory:English multiword terms#NOGOCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NOGOCategory:Pages with entries#NO-GOCategory:Pages with 1 entry#NO-GO

1. (manufacturingCategory:en:Manufacturing#NOGO, colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#NOGO, by ellipsisCategory:English ellipses#NOGO) A no-go gauge.

   There's your problem right there. See how that no-go slips right into the hole? The whole thing is scrap, unfortunately.Category:English terms with usage examples#NOGO

2. Alternative form of no go.

See also

• no dice
• no-go pill

Anagrams

• Goon, go on, gono-, goon, noog, ongo