go-along

See also: go along

English

Noun

go-along (plural go-alongs)

  1. An ethnographic method involving meeting and walking with members of the community being studied.
  2. (UK, obsolete, thieves' cant) A person duped into accompanying thieves during a robbery.
    • 2002, Meg Arnot; Cornelie Usborne, Gender And Crime in Modern Europe, page 82:
      A boy called Hewitt, awaiting transportation on the Euryalus hulk in the mid-1830s, told an interviewer that the swell-mob would often call into lodging-houses in order to recruit "go-alongs" for thieving expeditions: "boys are delighted [they] think it an honour to go with a swell-mob".

References
  • 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary: "Go along, a fool, a cully, one of the most contemptuous terms in a thieves' vocabulary."

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