no-go area

1. 1.

   an area that is dangerous or impossible to enter or to which entry is forbidden

   Broaderarea

   United Kingdom

Questions about no-go area

What does no-go area mean?

no-go area means "an area that is dangerous or impossible to enter or to which entry is forbidden".

Is no-go area a common word?

no-go area 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.