no-go
or no go
not authorized or approved to proceed; canceled or aborted: The Tuesday space launch is no-go.
not ready to go or proceed.
not functioning properly; inoperative: The ticket machine was no-go.
(of an area) having restricted entry: hazardous no-go zones.
a plan or idea that is canceled, rejected, or otherwise fails to be realized: We asked to borrow the car, but that was a no-go, so we’ll have to take the bus.
Origin of no-go
1Words Nearby no-go
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How to use no-go in a sentence
“Swaths of the north are no-go areas,” said an executive at a leading oil company.
One night, in the police no-go area of Barrowfield, I walked out with a convicted killer.
Secure the border; ceding a no-go zone to foreign drug lords on American territory is not acceptable.
To a young artist in the 1980s, the SoHo galleries that mattered seemed an unreachable territory, a no-go land.
Now he was ready to put those Herculean shoulders at any other bemired and rickety no-go-cart.
Other Idioms and Phrases with no-go
see no dice.
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