go round v.
1. (Aus. und.) to inform.
Sydney Sl. Dict. (2 edn) 7: Round (Go) - To inform. |
2. to go out on the town.
Bird o’ Freedom 22 Jan. 7: [My salary] was so small that when I got my fingers round it at the end of the week I used to give a policeman sixpence to catch hold of me by the scruff of the neck and convey me home as if I had stopped out and ‘gone round’. |
In phrases
1. to have a relationship with.
You Gotta Be Rough 184: ‘If I go around with a girl she’s going to be treated right. If there’s anything I can’t stand it’s a cheap skate’. | ||
Tomorrow’s Another Day 92: ‘There’s one thing I still don’t get,’ said Willy [...] ‘Why did she ever go around with that Greek?’. | ||
Catcher in the Rye (1958) 24: He was looking at this picture of this girl I used to go around with. | ||
But Not For Love 94: When you started drinking and staying out late and going around with other women [...] it broke my heart. | ||
Puberty Blues 19: Is that Susan Knight? [...] Is she goin’ round wiv anyone? | ||
Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 50/2: go around with keep steady company with a sexual partner, before or outside of marriage. | ||
Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. |
2. to fight with, physically or verbally.
Current Sl. V:1 7: Go ’round with, v. Argue. |