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Go-to-hell pants
Go-to-hell pants (GTH pants) are boldly colored, often embroidered preppy trousers of Ivy style, named by Tom Wolfe in 1976 and originating among affluent Northeasterners in the mid-1950s.
Go, Cubs, Go
Go, Cubs, Go is the Chicago Cubs' 1984 victory anthem, written by folk singer Steve Goodman for WGN radio, played at Wrigley Field after every Cubs home win; Goodman died of leukemia days before the 1984 division clinch.
Go, Diego, Go!
Go, Diego, Go! (Go Diego Go) is a Nick Jr. animated series (2005-2011), a Dora the Explorer spin-off starring her 8-year-old bilingual cousin Diego Marquez, an animal rescuer teaching Latin American wildlife and Spanish to preschoolers.
Go, Dog. Go!
Go, Dog. Go! is a 2021 Canadian-American animated preschool comedy series on Netflix, developed by Adam Peltzman from P.D. Eastman's classic picture book about dogs in Pawston.
GO:OD AM
GO:OD AM: Mac Miller's third studio album, released September 18, 2015 on Warner Bros., his major-label debut. 17 tracks with guests Ab-Soul, Chief Keef, Lil B, Miguel, Little Dragon; Metascore 71; 10th Anniversary edition added 3 tracks in 2025.
Go! Go! Loser Ranger!
Go! Go! Loser Ranger! (Sentai Daishikkaku) is Negi Haruba's ongoing manga about a defeated alien foot soldier infiltrating the corrupt Dragon Keepers; adapted as a 12-episode 2024 Yostar Pictures anime.
Go! Live Your Way
Go! Live Your Way (Go! Vive a tu manera) is a 2019 Argentine teen musical telenovela created by Sebastián Mellino, Netflix's first Latin American youth musical, starring Pilar Pascual as scholarship student Mía at the Saint Mary Academy; 2 seasons, 30 episodes, canceled.
Go/no-go task
The go/no-go task is a response inhibition paradigm in cognitive psychology in which participants respond to frequent go stimuli and withhold responses to rare no-go stimuli, with errors indexing inhibitory control.
Go90
Go90 was a free, ad-supported mobile video streaming service owned by Verizon Communications, launched in October 2015 and shut down on July 31, 2018, after Verizon spent roughly $1.2 billion on it.
Goa (2010 film)
Goa (கோவா) is a 2010 Tamil comedy film written and directed by Venkat Prabhu, produced by Soundarya Rajinikanth's Ocher Studios with Warner Bros, starring Jai, Vaibhav, and Premgi Amaren, with music by Yuvan Shankar Raja, released 29 January 2010.
Goa (गोवा)
Goa (गोवा), India's smallest state (3,702 sq km) on the Konkan coast, capital Panaji, official language Konkani. Former Portuguese colony liberated 1961, statehood 1987; economy driven by tourism, iron-ore mining, and agriculture.
Goa Inquisition
Goa Inquisition (Inquisição de Goa): Portuguese Holy Office tribunal established at Goa in 1560, the only Portuguese inquisitorial court in a colonial territory; targeted New Christians and converts, suspended 1774–1778, abolished 1812.
Goa trance
Goa trance is a style of electronic dance music associated with the all-night party scene in Goa, India. It developed from a local and international traveler culture into a recorded genre during.
Goahead Ventures
GoAhead Ventures is a Menlo Park, California venture capital firm investing in pre-seed and seed-stage technology companies, led by partners Clancey Stahr, Takeshi Mori, and Phil Brady.
Goal
A goal is a desired end state a person or group commits to reaching, studied through goal-setting theory, which holds that specific, difficult goals improve performance.
Goal attainment scaling
Goal attainment scaling is a psychometric method introduced by Kiresuk and Sherman in 1968 that converts individualized patient treatment goals into graded levels and a standardized T-score.
Goal celebration
Goal celebration: the gestures and rituals after scoring in football, permitted by IFAB Law 12 but limited (no shirt removal, no excess); famous examples include the Tardelli scream and Bebeto's baby rock.
Goal II: Living the Dream
Goal II: Living the Dream (2007) is the second film of the Goal! trilogy, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, in which Kuno Becker's Santiago Muñez transfers from Newcastle United to Real Madrid amid fame, family drama, and a Champions League final against Arsenal.
Goal III: Taking on the World
Goal III: Taking on the World, 2009 sports drama, final Goal! film, directed by Andrew Morahan, starring Kuno Becker, JJ Feild, Leo Gregory; straight-to-DVD UK release 15 June 2009, set at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, poorly received.
Goal misgeneralization
Goal misgeneralization is a machine learning failure in which a capable model competently pursues an unintended goal outside its training distribution, formalized by DeepMind researchers in 2022.
Goal programming
Goal programming is a branch of multi-objective optimization that finds a single compromise solution minimizing deviations from conflicting targets, introduced by Charnes, Cooper, and Ferguson in 1955.
Goal setting
Goal setting: specifying an aim in advance; Locke and Latham's goal-setting theory holds that specific, difficult goals with commitment and feedback improve performance, moderated by ability, task complexity, and task knowledge, with mixed applied evidence.
Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning
Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) is a branch of reinforcement learning where the policy takes both state and goal as inputs, letting one agent pursue many goals.
Goal-directed fluid therapy
Goal-directed fluid therapy (GDFT) is a perioperative strategy in which intravenous fluids are given according to real-time hemodynamic measurements, aiming to optimize cardiac output and tissue oxygen delivery.
Goal–Question–Metric
Goal–Question–Metric (GQM) is a software measurement paradigm proposed by Victor Basili and Dieter Rombach in 1988, in which goals are refined into questions and then metrics.
Goal! (film)
Goal! (Goal! The Dream Begins), 2005 Danny Cannon drama starring Kuno Becker as Santiago Muñez, a Mexican immigrant who trials for Newcastle United; first of a FIFA-backed trilogy with Real Madrid and World Cup sequels.
Goalball
Goalball: Paralympic team sport for visually impaired athletes, invented 1946 by Lorenzen and Reindle for blinded WWII veterans. Three-a-side, eyeshades, bell ball, 18x9 m court; men's medals from Toronto 1976, women's from 1984.
Goalkeeper (association football)
Goalkeeper (association football): the only player allowed to handle the ball, inside the penalty area. Key rules: mandatory one per team, back-pass restriction, and the eight-second holding rule with corner-kick sanction from 1 July 2025.
Goalkeeper CIWS
Goalkeeper is a Dutch close-in weapon system using a 30 mm Gatling cannon and its own radars to defend warships against anti-ship missiles, in production since 1985.
Goalpariya folk songs
Goalpariya folk songs, or Goalpariya lokageet (গোয়ালপৰীয়া লোকগীত), are lyrical folk songs of western Assam's Goalpara region, sung mainly by women and popularized on stage by Pratima Barua Pandey.