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go-ahead
[goh-uh-hed]
noun
Usually the go-ahead permission or a signal to proceed.
They got the go-ahead on the construction work.
Baseball.Usually the go-ahead go-ahead run.
With two outs, and the go-ahead on first, Hoffman winds up and delivers the pitch.
Chiefly Hawaii and California.a sandal held on the foot by a strap between the big toe and the next toe.
adjective
moving forward; advancing.
a go-ahead Yankee peddler.
go ahead
verb
(intr, adverb) to start or continue, often after obtaining permission
noun
informalpermission to proceed
adjective
enterprising or ambitious
Word History and Origins
Origin of go-ahead1
Idioms and Phrases
Move forward rapidly or act without restraint; also, continue something. For example, If you want to borrow the tractor, go ahead . This expression is often put as go ahead with , as in Are you going ahead with the house party? The term dates from the mid-1600s and gave rise to give the go-ahead , meaning “give permission to move or act in some way.”
go ahead of . Make one's way to the front of, as in They went ahead of me to see the purser . [Mid-1700s]
Example Sentences
And even at the start of the sixth inning, the Dodgers did some little things right to set up Hernández’s go-ahead blast.
For example, giving the go-ahead to the new Sizewell C nuclear plant will create 10,000 direct jobs and thousands more in connected businesses.
Manchester's Metrolink got the go-ahead and four decades later its bright yellow trams and 65-mile network are synonymous with public transport on the other side of the Pennines.
But with the go-ahead run on second base in the eighth inning, Roberts summoned Freeman off the bench.
In the fifth, he committed a costly error at third base that fueled New York’s go-ahead two-run rally.
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