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go-ahead

[goh-uh-hed]

go-a·head

[goh-uh-hed]
noun
1.
permission or a signal to proceed: They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
2.
Chiefly Hawaii and California. a sandal held on the foot by a strap between the big toe and the next toe.
adjective
3.
moving forward; advancing.
4.
enterprising: a go-ahead Yankee peddler.

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Go-ahead is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

Origin:
1830–40, Americanism; noun, adj. use of verb phrase go ahead
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go-ahead definition


  1. n.
    permission to proceed; the signal to go ahead. (See also say-so.) : I gave him the go-ahead, and the tanks started moving in.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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