"go Galt" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: goes Galt [present, singular, third-person], going Galt [participle, present], went Galt [past], gone Galt [participle, past]
Etymology: After John Galt, a fictional character in Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. Head templates: {{en-verb|go<goes,,went,gone> Galt}} go Galt (third-person singular simple present goes Galt, present participle going Galt, simple past went Galt, past participle gone Galt)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To become a recluse and stop contributing to society, especially in the form of taxes, by reducing one's work or productivity or by refusing to follow societal norms that one believes to be unjust. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-go_Galt-en-verb-K13OhRgm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2009 March 6, David Weigel, “Battling Obama by ‘Going Galt’”, in The Washington Independent:",
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          "ref": "2012 November 6, The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert (actor), via Comedy Central:",
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        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To become a recluse and stop contributing to society, especially in the form of taxes, by reducing one's work or productivity or by refusing to follow societal norms that one believes to be unjust."
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