dot-and-go-one

English

Adjective

dot-and-go-one (not comparable)

1. (UK, slang, archaic) Having a lame or limping gait.
   • 1893, The Boy's Own Annual, volume 16, page 805:

     […] I shouted, though with inward misgivings on account of my game leg; and we started off towards camp as fast as we could go — which is not saying much, as I could only get over the ground in a dot-and-go-one sort of way.

   • 1928, Agatha Christie, The Mystery of the Blue Train, page 127:

     "I think the doctors messed it up a bit. They said he wouldn't limp or anything, but when he left here he was still completely dot and go one."

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary