Go-along
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An ethnographic method involving meeting and walking with members of the community being studied.
- 2 A person duped into accompanying thieves during a robbery. UK, obsolete
"A boy called Hewitt, awaiting transportation on the Euryalus hulk in the mid-1830s, told an interviewer that the swell-mob would often call into lodging-houses in order to recruit "go-alongs" for thieving expeditions: "boys are delighted [they] think it an honour to go with a swell-mob"."
Example
More examples"A boy called Hewitt, awaiting transportation on the Euryalus hulk in the mid-1830s, told an interviewer that the swell-mob would often call into lodging-houses in order to recruit "go-alongs" for thieving expeditions: "boys are delighted [they] think it an honour to go with a swell-mob"."
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