no-go

no-go (not comparable)

1. Not functioning properly.
2. Of a place: not to be entered.

   They lived in a no-go part of the ghetto.

   The noise and drunkenness made the area a no-go zone at night for families.

   • 2001 March 11, “Boost for local entrepreneurs.”, in Sunday Business, London, UK:

     Many of these areas have become no go for investment

   • 2004 January 29, Freeman, “Deconstructing the risk business in Iraq”, in Irish Independent:

     The key resisting areas have effectively become no go

   • 2010 July 2, “Jail for drug network that supplied the Swansea Valley”, in BBC News:

     Two pubs in the Pontardawe area which had previously been hubs of local social life had become "no-go" through being frequented by the gang.

   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 14:

     The Great Western opened a Paddington station in 1838, a wooden terminus to the north of the present station, which would arrive in 1853. As with Euston, the site was bounded to the south by high-class property, a no-go zone for railways.

no-go (plural no-gos or no-goes)

1. Alternative form of no go

• no dice
• no-go pill

• Goon, go on, gono-, goon, noog, ongo