Meaning of go in for | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To enter a competition.
2. To have an interest in or approve of something.
   colloquial
3. To engage oneself or take part in something.
   colloquial

Examples

“"I hope she doesn't go in for big purple orchids," Miss Tinkham said to Mrs. Rasmussen, "there are so many pretty kinds."”

“Jem, there's a good opening among the hard Fact fellows, and they want men. I wonder you don't go in for statistics.”

“"Why on earth do you go in for track?" I asked him. And then he explained that he thought that, if you wanted to be an all-around man, you ought to cultivate some form of athletics— he's actually taken up pole-vaulting: isn't that a ghastly thought?”

“It ain't their fault; I know heaps of nice girls who feel it horribly. What can they do? they can't go in for cricket and football.”

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