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Definition of Have a go
1. Verb. Make an attempt at something. "I never sat on a horse before but I'll give it a go"
Definition of Have a go
1. Verb. (intransitive informal) To make an attempt; to try. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive informal idiomatic UK) To attack (physically). ¹
3. Verb. (intransitive informal idiomatic UK) To tell off (especially unnecessarily or excessively), to criticise. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Have A Go
Literary usage of Have a go
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Word Savvy: Integrated Vocabulary, Spelling & Word Study, Grades 3-6 by Max Brand (2004)
"And also doing Have a Go, and go through the whole word before going to the next,
... If I don't know how to spell a vocabulary word, I will use Have a Go, ..."
2. The Bar Sinister by Richard Harding Davis (1903)
"dogs from all over the province to have a go at me; but up to that night none,
under thirty pounds, had ever downed me. But that night, so soon as they ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1909)
"Let's turn it out and have a go at it. I They clear a table and turn the contents
of the box out in a confused heap of little wooden slabs, of irregular ..."
4. Outing (1893)
"If, however, he "went up" again in the next October in order to have a go at the
trials, and should be successful, he could return here about Christmas-time ..."
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