"no-go" meaning in English

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        "Not functioning properly."
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          "text": "They lived in a no-go part of the ghetto.",
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          "text": "The noise and drunkenness made the area a no-go zone at night for families.",
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        {
          "ref": "2001 March 11, “Boost for local entrepreneurs.”, in Sunday Business, London, UK:",
          "text": "Many of these areas have become no go for investment",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2004 January 29, Freeman, “Deconstructing the risk business in Iraq”, in Irish Independent:",
          "text": "The key resisting areas have effectively become no go",
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        {
          "ref": "2010 July 2, “Jail for drug network that supplied the Swansea Valley”, in BBC News:",
          "text": "Two pubs in the Pontardawe area which had previously been hubs of local social life had become \"no-go\" through being frequented by the gang.",
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          "ref": "2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 14:",
          "text": "The Great Western opened a Paddington station in 1838, a wooden terminus to the north of the present station, which would arrive in 1853. As with Euston, the site was bounded to the south by high-class property, a no-go zone for railways.",
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        "Of a place: not to be entered."
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        {
          "word": "no dice"
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        {
          "word": "no-go pill"
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        "Not functioning properly."
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          "text": "They lived in a no-go part of the ghetto.",
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        },
        {
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          "ref": "2001 March 11, “Boost for local entrepreneurs.”, in Sunday Business, London, UK:",
          "text": "Many of these areas have become no go for investment",
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          "ref": "2004 January 29, Freeman, “Deconstructing the risk business in Iraq”, in Irish Independent:",
          "text": "The key resisting areas have effectively become no go",
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          "text": "Two pubs in the Pontardawe area which had previously been hubs of local social life had become \"no-go\" through being frequented by the gang.",
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        },
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          "text": "The Great Western opened a Paddington station in 1838, a wooden terminus to the north of the present station, which would arrive in 1853. As with Euston, the site was bounded to the south by high-class property, a no-go zone for railways.",
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