Go

Go (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of go (“strategic board game”)

From go, likely with reference to the first two letters of Google.

Go

2. (computer languages) A compiled, garbage-collected, concurrent programming language developed by Google.
   • 2021, Jon Bodner, Learning Go, O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 327:

     Despite the lower priority placed on features, Go isn't a static, unchanging language. New features are adopted slowly, after much discussion and experimentation. Since the initial release of Go 1.0, there have been significant changes to the patterns that define idiomatic Go.

• goroutine

• 'og, O&G, O.G., OG, Og, og

From Hokkien 吳／吴 (Gô͘, Ngô͘) or 伍 (Gó͘, Ngó͘).

Go

1. a surname

• IPA^(key): /ɡo/

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Go

1. Abbreviation of gigaoctet; GB (gigabyte)

• IPA^(key): /ɡoː/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oː

Go n

1. go (board game)

• “Go” in Duden online
• “Go” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Go” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Borrowed from Hokkien 吳／吴 (Gô͘, Ngô͘) or 伍 (Gó͘, Ngó͘). Doublet of Ngo, Goh, Cinco, Ng, and Wu.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɡo/ [ˈɡo]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: Go

Go (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜓ)

1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien