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have-a-go

British  

adjective

  1. informal (of people attempting arduous or dangerous tasks) brave or spirited

    a have-a-go pensioner

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The military, police, a local zipline entrepreneur and a have-a-go hero are all involved in the pulse-racing rescue.

From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026

Has the era of the "have-a-go" podcasters come to an end?

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2023

Britain may not be as synonymous with have-a-go investors as the United States, but it's growing a more lively retail investor community.

From Reuters • Dec. 16, 2021

He and Gloucester have not quite had the dazzling end to the season they would have liked but Burns's heads-up approach and have-a-go attitude still merits recognition.

From The Guardian • May 3, 2013

It helped that the opposition was Blackpool, the shoestring upstart that refuses to engage in anything other than a have-a-go mentality.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2011