English

Verb

go home ‎(third-person singular simple present goes home, present participle going home, simple past went home, past participle gone home)

1. Used other than as an idiom: see go,‎ home. To return to one's house.

   Your mother called. She wants you to go home at 10:00.

2. (euphemistic) To die.

   Louis went home at around 2:30 yesterday.

3. (euphemistic) To be eliminated in a competition.
   • 2009, Sharon Marie Ross, Beyond the Box: Television and the Internet, page 82:

     Hellriegel's program tells him who is receiving a lot of votes (long periods of busy signals) and who is not (easy to ring through), and the website tells viewers who is most likely to go home – rather than who is most likely to stay.

Derived terms

• go hard or go home
• take one's ball and go home

Translations

Synonyms

• (to die): pass away, pass, cross over, go to be with the Lord