Go \Go\, n.

1. Act; working; operation. [Obs.]

So gracious were the goes of marriage. --Marston.

2. A circumstance or occurrence; an incident. [Slang]

This is a pretty go. --Dickens.

3. The fashion or mode; as, quite the go. [Colloq.]

4. Noisy merriment; as, a high go. [Colloq.]

5. A glass of spirits. [Slang]

6. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; as, there is no go in him. [Colloq.]

7. (Cribbage) That condition in the course of the game when a player can not lay down a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

Great go, Little go, the final and the preliminary examinations for a degree. [Slang, Eng. Univ.]

No go, a failure; a fiasco. [Slang] --Thackeray.

On the go, moving about; unsettled. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)