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go steady

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  1. Date one person exclusively, as in Parents often don't approve of their children's decision to go steady. This usage may be obsolescent. [Slang; c. 1900] Also see go together, def. 2; go with, def. 1.

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The researchers found evidence that some of the male and female rats might go steady, or even jointly care for their young, while in captivity.

From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2020

"I knew I had to go steady and think smart for a change, because I didn't do that in London last year."

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2016

She was too young to go steady, she told him.

From The New Yorker • May 25, 2015

The proper course of courtship was to go steady, become pinned, then engaged.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2010

I mean, sure, we had fusses—everybody does, all the kids that go steady.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote

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