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go all the way

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go all the way (with someone)

 and go to bed (with someone)

Euph. to have sexual intercourse with someone. If you go all the way, you stand a chance of getting pregnant. I've heard that they go to bed all the time.

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go all the way

to have sex In the old days, couples spent a lot of time kissing but didn't go all the way.

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go all the way

 

1. (informal) to have sex, especially when you have only been kissing and touching before I wouldn't go all the way with a boy if I didn't love him.

2. if you go all the way when you are doing something, you do it completely We finally decided to go all the way and redecorate the entire house. The government didn't go all the way; it restricted advertising by tobacco companies, but didn't ban it.

3. if a person or team goes all the way in a sports competition, they win every part of it Do you think she can go all the way at Wimbledon this year?

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go all the way

1. Continue on a course to the end, as in The town agreed to put in a sewer but would not go all the way with widening the street. [First half of 1900s] Also see go the distance.

2. Engage in sexual intercourse, as in Her mother told her some boys will always try to make her go all the way. [Slang; second half of 1900s]

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go all the way

in. to copulate; to carry necking all the way to copulation. (Euphemistic. Usually objectionable.) He keeps wanting me to go all the way.

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