little go

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little go

noun little gos · little goes · little-go

  1. historical A type of illegal private lottery.
  2. UK, historical The first examination for a BA degree at Oxford or Cambridge universities; responsions. He gave a reluctant couple of hours in the afternoon to the mysteries of Little-go Greek, and for the rest of his time he was either working at mathematics and mathematical physics or experimenting in a little upstairs room that had been carved out of the general space of the barn.
  3. slang Any minor or preliminary activity.

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