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On the go

Go \Go\, n.

  1. Act; working; operation. [Obs.]

    So gracious were the goes of marriage.
    --Marston.

  2. A circumstance or occurrence; an incident. [Slang]

    This is a pretty go.
    --Dickens.

  3. The fashion or mode; as, quite the go. [Colloq.]

  4. Noisy merriment; as, a high go. [Colloq.]

  5. A glass of spirits. [Slang]

  6. Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance; push; as, there is no go in him. [Colloq.]

  7. (Cribbage) That condition in the course of the game when a player can not lay down a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.

  8. Something that goes or is successful; a success; as, he made a go of it; also, an agreement.

    ``Well,'' said Fleming, ``is it a go?''
    --Bret Harte.

    Great go, Little go, the final and the preliminary examinations for a degree. [Slang, Eng. Univ.]

    No go, a failure; a fiasco. [Slang]
    --Thackeray.

    On the go, moving about; unsettled. [Colloq.]

Wiktionary
on the go

a. 1 (context idiomatic English) Actively traveling; busy; moving often. 2 Being started.

WordNet
on the go

adj. (of a person) very busy and active; "is always on the go" [syn: on the go(p)]

Usage examples of "on the go".

He has published short stories in HandHeldCrime, Plots With Guns, Nefarious, and Mysterical-E, has a novel on the go and a novella in the works.