Green’s Dictionary of Slang

go... v.

to have sexual intercourse; in phrs. below.

In phrases

go...

see also under relevant n. or adj.

go all the way to Cockfosters (v.)
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[UK]Roger’s Profanisaurus 3 in Viz 98 Oct. 15: go all the way to Cockfosters v. To have a full portion of greens with plenty of summer cabbage. As in ‘I thought I’d have to go home via the Billy Mill roundabout, but she took me all the way to Cockfosters.’.
go facemaking (v.) [the face is that of a newly conceived child]
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, , [UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Face making, begetting children.
[UK]Lex. Balatronicum.
[UK]Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
[UK]Egan Anecdotes of the Turf, the Chase etc. 177: The overseers [...] threatened Sporting Betsey [...] that if she ever committed any more sins in the face-making line — quod, and nothing else, should be her portion.
[UK]Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
go motting (v.)

see under mot n.

go star-gazing (on one’s back) (v.)

see under star n.1

go the distance (v.) [boxing/horseracing imagery]
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[US](con. 1952) G. Wolff Duke of Deception (1990) 178: Plenty of nook up here in Maine. Went the distance last night with that babe from Walker’s. Huge hooters, hot!
[US]J. Wambaugh Finnegan’s Week 244: A croak: ‘I can’t go the distance’.
go the limit (v.) (also go the full limit)

to have or permit sexual intercourse.

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[US]A.C. Inman 30 Aug. diary in Aaron (1985) 215: Lord, how I would like to go the limit with Evelyn.
[US]R. Coleman Girl From Back Home in Hatch & Hamalian Lost Plays of Harlem Renaissance (1996) 100: I didn’t go the limit, Jazz [...] I stayed good till – ’till I met you.
[US] ‘Pete in “No Pay”’ [comic strip] in B. Adelman Tijuana Bibles (1997) 43: She offers me ten bucks if I’ll go the limit with her.
[US]Murtagh & Harris Cast the First Stone 34: [of lesbians] I didn’t want to go the limit when we first got together. Kissing and holding hands, O.K.
[Aus]W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 185: She’ll let you play around with her, but as far as going the full limit, she just won’t be in it.
[US]Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 197: When Eblis has caused a moisture to flow, […] she is said to have fed her pussy, having gone all the way or the limit.
[UK]J. Morton Lowspeak 93: To go the limit [...] ‘You might get a handful of sprats but she won’t go the limit.’.
go tromboning (v.) [the physical action]
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[UK]Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
[US]Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 197: There are various semi-technical terms for acting thus, such as [...] coit, flute and go tromboning.
go tummy-tickling (v.)
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[UK]Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
[UK]Farmer Vocabula Amatoria (1966) 110: Envahir. To copulate; ‘to go tummy-tickling’.
[US]Maledicta IV:2 (Winter) 196: The terms used for copulating […] are not really euphemistic because it is implicit that no ambiguity could possibly result and, unlike euphemisms, they are, or used to be, avoided in polite, mixed company. Related to this group are the allusive [...] make the beast with two backs (Othello), go tummy-tickling, play rub-belly, match ends, get up.