1. Small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body with ventral fins modified as a sucker
   "The goby used its sucker-like fins to cling to rocks in the strong current";
   - gudgeon

1. Become later by the passage of a given amount of time
   "three years went by";
   - elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, slide by, go along
    
2. Move past
   "A black limousine went by when she looked out the window";
   - travel by, pass by, go past, pass
    
3. Be called; go by a certain name
   "She goes by her maiden name again";
   - go under
    
4. Be or act in accordance with
   "Go by this rule and you'll be safe"

Sounds like: gnaw, goby

Derived forms: going by, goes by, went by, gobies, gone by

See also: slither

Type of: advance, apply, conform to, employ, follow, go, go on, locomote, march on, move, move on, pass on, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean, progress, travel, use, utilise [Brit], utilize

Part of: family Gobiidae, Gobiidae

Encyclopedia: Goby, Virginia