Meaning

One who, or that which, goes..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who, or that which, goes.
2. (informal) Anything, especially a machine such as a motor car, that performs well, or operates successfully.
3. (British, slang) A person, often a woman, who enjoys sexual activity.
4. (obsolete) A foot (body part).
5. (dated) A horse, considered in reference to its gait.
6. (firefighting, slang) A fire incident in progress.

Example Sentences

1845, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Letter to Hannah Macaulay dated 19 December, 1845 in G. Otto Trevelyan (ed.), The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, New York: Harper, 1875, Volume 2, p. 149, Lord John has been all day in his inner library. His antechamber has been filled with comers and goers, some talking in knots, some writing notes at tables.

Such a man Might be a copy to these younger times; Which, follow’d well, would demonstrate them now But goers backward.

[…] the two classes of men; on the one hand the steady goers of superhuman strength […] plodding and persevering, […]; on the other the gifted, the inspired […]

He despised the museum and its goers for everything they didn’t know.

I bought her secondhand, but she's a good little goer.

Norman: Is your wife a ... goer ... eh? Know what I mean? Know what I mean? Nudge nudge.

He winked at Parsons. "If I'm any judge, she must've bin a right little goer in 'er day."

'[…](Intimate, man to man) Eh, I bet she's a goer, int she sunshine? She's got a fair pair of knockers on her too.'

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