to-go

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adjective

tə-ˈgō 

: of, relating to, or providing food or beverages consumed away from their place of sale : take-out

a to-go order

to-go boxes/containers

This is mostly a take-out joint, and Filipinos in the know trickle in all day for a to-go lunch, dinner or breakfast.

—Cecilia Hae-Jin Lee

to go

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idiomatic phrase

1

: still remaining

There are five minutes to go before halftime.

There's only one week to go until election day.

2

of food and beverages : for consumption away from its place of sale

They ordered their lunches to go.

You stop at the corner for a doughnut and coffee to go.

—Jay McInerney

Examples of to-go in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

There’s also a cap and a to-go coffee cup, in black and white respectively. —Talia Abbas, Vogue, 21 June 2024

Coffee is rarely ordered to-go or had en route; even eating apples or bananas on the street may cause people to scoff. —Sara Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 18 June 2024

Idiomatic phrase

Another $500 million is slated to go to SSAB, a Swedish steel giant and one of the companies behind HYBRIT, to explore the development of an ironmaking plant using green hydrogen in Mississippi. —Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 23 June 2024

Water molecules move in any direction, yes, except the ones at the surface have nowhere to go but down. —Annie Liontas, The Atlantic, 23 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1953, in the meaning defined above

Idiomatic Phrase

1884, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Geographical Definition

Togo

geographical name

To·​go ˈtō-(ˌ)gō 

republic in western Africa on the Bight of Benin; capital Lomé area 21,925 square miles (56,785 square kilometers), population 8,176,000

Togolese

ˌtō-gə-ˈlēz 

-ˈlēs

adjective or noun

Biographical Definition

Tōgō

biographical name

Tō·​gō ˈtō-(ˌ)gō 

Marquis Heihachirō 1848–1934 Japanese admiral