Specific uses of sense 8. With metonymy of the object; to burn a country: i.e. to set fire to all objects on the surface of the ground. Obsolete. to b…

intransitive. To go or advance quickly; to go at full speed; to decamp. Also with away, off, etc. Cf. stretch, v. 10 (The verb is, in this sense, now…

transferred and figurative. To gallop, run or move at full speed. (Also to career it.)

To go or advance quickly; to go at full speed, to rush. Also with off, out, up, etc.

with it.

intransitive. To ‘go off at score’ (see score, n. 3b).

colloquial. eyes out: = all out, adv. 4; esp. in to go eyes out (chiefly New Zealand and Australian). Cf. full tilt at tilt, n.2 3c.

Australian and New Zealand colloquial. to go for the doctor: to go at full speed; to apply or commit oneself wholeheartedly to something.