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Go around

verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    To move or spread from person to person. intransitive

    "The rumor is going around that Mr. X and Ms. Y are having an affair. There's a cough going around."

  2. 2
    avoid something unpleasant or laborious wordnet
  3. 3
    To visit (a place) or with (somebody). intransitive

    "I'm going around to John's house later."

  4. 4
    become widely known and passed on wordnet
  5. 5
    To fight or argue; to obsess over something. intransitive, slang
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  1. 6
    turn on or around an axis or a center wordnet
  2. 7
    To be shared with everyone. intransitive

    "There's plenty of fish to go around."

  3. 8
    go around the flank of (an opposing army) wordnet
  4. 9
    To perform a go-around maneuver. intransitive

    "ATC told the flight to go around because another plane was still on the runway."

  5. 10
    be sufficient wordnet
  6. 11
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, around.

    "Let's make the wheels go around."

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