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See also: goal post
English
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Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡəʊlpəʊst/, /ˈɡɔʊl-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡoʊlpoʊst/
- Hyphenation: goal‧post
- Rhymes: -əʊst
Noun
[edit]goalpost (plural goalposts)
- (sports) One of the two vertical side poles of a goal.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 107:
- Some kids were having a kickabout on the grass beside the walkway, cheering, groaning, calling for the ball, absorbed in the game, a self-contained universe marked out by jackets for goalposts and invisible touchlines.
- (sports, American football) The tall Y-shaped upright, now usually of fiberglass, at either end of the playing field, through which a football must go in order for a field goal to be scored. (They were originally H-shaped, with one wooden post on either side.)
- A rule or target that is "moved" (changed) unfairly; see move the goalposts.
- 2012, Sarah L. Holloway, Mark Jayne, Gill Valentine, Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness: (Dis)Orderly Spaces, page 55:
- […] whatever you eat, how much you drink, you know the goalposts keep moving all the time, and it's difficult to be sure that, but I don't think it's harmful, not the amount I drink.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]vertical side pole of a goal
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Further reading
[edit]goal (sport) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia