Meaning

2 senses
  1. Approval, agreement, or instruction to begin or proceed.

    You can start as soon as you get the go-ahead from the president.

    a signal to proceed

  2. (dated, usually plural)A flip-flop (footwear).

Translations

2 languages

Origin

Deverbal from go ahead.

Deverbal from go ahead.

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Forms

plural: go-aheads
Singulargo-ahead
Pluralgo-aheads

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedgo ahead

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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