go for broke
verbEtymology
From Hawaiian Pidgin craps slang, meaning “to wager everything on one roll”: one would be broke, i.e. bankrupt, if one lost. Popularized by the movie Go for Broke! (1951), which is named for the 442nd Infantry Regiment’s unit motto.
Definitions
To wager everything.
To try everything possible or do every last thing possible in a final attempt.
- These shoeless gladiators "shoot the works" or as they themselves term it "go for broke" in each game. They battle for every inch ...
- Well, we shot the line and we went for broke With a thousand screamin' trucks An' eleven long-haired Friends a' Jesus In a chartreuse microbus.
The neighborhood
- neighborgo all out
- neighborgo for it
- neighborgo for the burn
- neighborhere goes nothing
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for go for broke. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA