The Collaborative International Dictionary
Go-by \Go"-by`\, n. A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to give a proposal the go-by.
Some songs to which we have given the go-by.
--Prof.
Wilson.
Wiktionary
n. A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away.
Usage examples of "go-by".
The four of them had started at one end of the Buck Rogers Boulevard and methodically worked their way into the tubes, refusing to give any bar, speakeasy, or shebeen the go-by.
Cheaping Knowe, and thus outwent us while we were fetching that compass to give them the go-by: wherefore I deem that some great man is with them, else had they gone back to town for new orders.
Even Stebbing, who had good reason to know that he could drive to an inch, clutched the edge of his seat three times: twice when, on a narrow stretch of the road, he sprang his horses to give the go-by to a slower vehicle, and once when he feather-edged a blind corner without checking.