Usually means: Oppose or resist authority or convention.
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  1. go against: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. go against: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. go against: Collins English Dictionary
  4. go against: Vocabulary.com
  5. go against: Wiktionary
  6. go against: Dictionary.com
  7. go against: Rhymezone
  8. go against: Free Dictionary
  9. go against: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. go against: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. go against: Legal dictionary

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  1. go against: Encyclopedia

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  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (go against)

verb:  To violate; to breach; to break.
verb:  To be unfavourable to someone.
verb:  To be contrary to a trend, feeling or principle.
verb:  To oppose; to resist

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