go for broke

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   risk everything in one big effort

   “the cyclist went for broke at the end of the race”

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Questions about go for broke

What does go for broke mean?

go for broke means "risk everything in one big effort".

Is go for broke a common word?

go for broke is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.