goaln.
/ɡəʊl/, U.S. /ɡoʊl/ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun]
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c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 139 God nys nauȝt in þer worldle aclosed, Ac hy hys ine hym. Þaȝ hy nabbe ende ne forþe gol, Ȝet ouer al he hys y-hol.
1647 J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme XL. Questions conc. Soule viii. 67 The Turba seeketh the limit [Ger. Ziel] [Side-note Or bound, or terme, or Goale, or End.] in the Spirit of this world.
2. [Sense 2d is directly influenced by classical Latin meta and sense 2a is probably also influenced by this; sense 2c is influenced by classical Latin carcer (see note in etymology section).] † b. A race or contest. Obsolete.Recorded earliest in goal end n. (a) at Compounds 2.Only in figurative contexts.† c. The starting point of a race or a marker by which this point is signified; (Roman History) the set of starting gates in a circus used for chariot races. Hence figurative: a starting point, a beginning. Obsolete.
a. The finishing point of a race or a marker by which this point is signified; the finish line, the finishing post. Also in figurative contexts (cf. sense 3a). Cf. meta n.1 Now rare.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > finishing mark
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1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour iii. xx. sig. evi As in rennynge, passynge the gole, is accounted but rasshenesse, so rennynge halfe waye is reproued for slownesse.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 159 Let that be apointed the gole [L. meta] for vs to runne and trauaile vnto.
1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 321 He that setteth forth for the goal, if he will obtain, must resolve to devour all difficulties, and to run it out.
1671 M. D'Assigny tr. P. Gautruche Poet. Hist. ii. ix. 182 Hippomenes went on, and reacht the Goal before her.
1728 E. Young Love of Fame i, in Wks. (1757) I. 80 Congreve, who, crown'd with laurels, fairly won, Sits smiling at the goal, while others run.
1852 Era 4 Jan. 4/4 Before they had proceeded two hundred yards nearer to the goal, the petite runner was used up.
1916 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 13 517 We can imagine him [sc. Zeno] saying, ‘I am willing to admit that the runner is able to traverse half the distance between himself and the goal.’
1978 S. Chinmoy Meditation (1989) xv. 188 Is this the runner who will stop only when the goal is reached, or is this the runner who will run thirty metres and then lose all his energy?
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society > society and the community > dissent > competition or rivalry > [noun] > a contest or competition
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a1555 J. Philpot in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 242 There is none crowned but suche as holde out to the gole end.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 145 I am glad, even in this great goale of honour, to runne equally with him.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > [noun] > starting or finishing mark > starting mark
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1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. iii. 57 These runners at common games, who setting forth from the first goale, one giueth start speedely & perhaps before he come half way to th'other goale, decayeth his pace.
1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xii. 1) iii. 254 There is a distance betwixt the goale where they begin, and the goale where t[h]ey end.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 101 Hast thou beheld, when from the Goal [L. carcere] they start, The Youthful Charioteers..Rush to the Race. View more context for this quotation
1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. viii. 126 Rang'd in a line the ready racers stand, Start from the goal, and vanish o'er the strand.
1783 S. Lee Recess I. i. 10 We start forward from the goal of youth, fearless and impatient.
1852 W. J. Conybeare & J. S. Howson Life & Epist. St. Paul I. viii. 300 From this goal he [sc. Alexander] started to overthrow the august dynasties of the East.
1913 Eng. Rev. Feb. 364 God had linked their lives in bands When the worm Life first started from the goal.
d. Classical History (chiefly Roman History). Either of the markers, in the Roman world typically consisting of three conical structures, situated at each end of the arena of a circus or hippodrome to indicate the turning places for chariot races. Also figurative. Cf. meta n.1
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > racing with vehicles > chariot race > [noun] > turning point on course
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1606 P. Holland in tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars Annot. 5/2 These Goales called in Latine Metes, abovt which the horses and chariots ranne.
1637 J. Milton Comus 4 The..Sun..Pacing toward the other gole Of his Chamber in the East.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 531 Part curb thir fierie Steeds, or shun the Goal With rapid wheels. View more context for this quotation
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 16 The space between the two metæ or goals was filled with statues and obelisks.
1799 S. T. Coleridge Ode Georgiana in Morning Post 24 Dec. The Angel of the Earth..while he guides His chariot planet round the goal of day.
1807 J. Robinson Archæologia Græca iii. xx. 340 The principal art of the charioteer consisted in avoiding the νύσσαι, goals; in which if he failed, he over turned his chariot.
1857 R. A. Willmott Pleasures of Lit. xi. 42 Their fiercest struggles only carry the chariot nearer to the goal.
1897 H. T. Peck Harper's Dict. Classical Lit. & Antiq. I. 825/2 The chariots, thus started, had to pass several times round two goals.
1915 N. Gallizier Crimson Gondola ii. i. 179 As his chariot wheeled with smooth rapidity round the goal..the hope of victory rose strong within him.
1998 N. Freedman Sappho 25 With bodies leaning toward the goal, the drivers made the final pass.
3. † b. A reward or prize for victory or success; victory or success in an endeavour, contest, etc. Frequently (and in earliest use) figurative and in figurative contexts. Obsolete.
a. An aim or outcome which a person, group, or organization works towards or strives to achieve; the object of a person's ambition or effort. Later also: (Psychology) an end or result to which a series of actions, choices, events, etc., lead (whether consciously or unconsciously directed), the achievement of which brings reward or satisfaction.See also Compounds 1b(a).
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the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object > goal or target
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > behaviourism > theories of motivation > [noun] > end or result
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > behaviourism > theories of motivation > [adjective] > goal
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the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object > goal or target > in psychology
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1540 T. Some Treat. Lordis Flayle sig. Aviiiv This commaundment..willyth that we streche owre selues forwerdis to the marke and gole by a true fayth where we shall resayue all parfectues.
1572 J. Leslie Copie Let. out of Scotl. f. 34v An open way for himselfe to atteine the goale of the regiment of that Realme.
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles v. 208 Then Honour be but a Goale to my Will, This day Ile rise, or else adde ill to ill. View more context for this quotation
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man: Epist. II 15 Each Individual seeks a sev'ral Goal: But Heav'n's great View is One, and that the Whole.
1839 G. Bird Elements Nat. Philos. Introd. 27 In many cases we exhaust every variety of error before we attain the desired goal.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lxx. 550 The presidency is the great prize of politics, the goal of every statesman's ambition.
1917 B. Glueck & J. E. Lind tr. A. Adler Neurotic Constit. (1921) p. viii The entire picture of the neurosis as well as all its symptoms are influenced by..an imaginary fictitious goal... The potency of this ‘goal idea’ is revealed to us by the trend and evaluation of the pathological phenomena.
1927 Bookman Dec. 378/2 To the lonely and aspiring hoofer, the fannie-falling comedian..Broadway is the Big Apple, the Main Stem, the goal of all ambition.
1940 R. S. Woodworth Psychol. (ed. 12) ii. 42 The reader becomes set or adjusted for the situation portrayed in the story and for the ‘goal’, the outcome of the story.
1945 E. S. Russell Directiveness Org. Activities i. 8 I shall use, with due caution, and without any implication of conscious purpose on the part of the organism or other organic agent, the concepts of goal or completion and of biological end.
1989 L. A. Pervin Goal Concepts in Personality & Social Psychol. i. 4 Instinctive behaviours could increasingly be performed with awareness of a goal or end point and could be initiated by ideas of objects and by the objects themselves!
2015 New Yorker 22 June 40/3 He..had the goal of raising twenty thousand dollars.
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society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > reward of victory
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1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxiiijv There was no person..could nor should haue wone the ryng or gott the gole before me.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 11 David, beyng wonderfully over-matched, made his partie good, and gotte the gole of a monster.
1593 G. Peele Famous Chron. King Edward the First C4 Deliuer me the golden Diadem. Loe here I holde the goale for which ye striued.
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 i. iv. 1* The goale is lost thou house of Lancaster.
1605 M. Drayton Poems sig. Ff5v The most iudiciall eyes, Did giue the gole impartially to me.
1658 O. Cromwell Speech 25 Jan. in Lett. & Speeches (1904) III. 176 Some of these [Cavaliers]..care not who carry the goal,..nay, some of these have invited the Spaniard himself to assist and carry on the Cavalier Cause.
c. The end point or destination of a journey. Also in figurative contexts with reference to the achievement of an aim or desired outcome (cf. sense 3a).
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > destination
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1788 H. Walpole Corr. III. 87 Having..strolled into a narrow path that led to no goal..I see the idleness of my journey.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxiv. 239 I..beheld the open water, so long the goal of our struggles.
1891 S. Wood Over the Range 199 Our train takes the line to the left, and rolling along through a level country..soon reaches Long Beach, the goal of our journey.
1956 J. L. Henderson in M. S. Link Pollen Path 139 The River of Life, on whose broad current all should travel to a goal of cultural integration, becomes instead the River of Separation which divides men from women.
2011 Grant County Press (Petersburg, W. Va.) (Nexis) 10 May With much difficulty..we reached the top, and found ourselves on the Big Plains of the Alleghany, the goal of our journey.
4. In various team sports played with a ball, puck, etc.
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(a) A pair of upright posts, typically joined by a crossbar and in some sports with a net or covered framework behind, which form an area or space into or through which players attempt to send the ball, puck, etc., as a means of scoring. Also more generally: the target or area at which players aim or into which they attempt to move the ball, puck, etc., in order to score. Also in figurative contexts.The use of ‘goal’ to refer to the target for scoring is now largely restricted to sports such as Association Football and hockey. In rugby football, American football, etc., this use is now rare: in rugby it survives in phrases such as kick at goal (see Phrases 1), but in these sports such a target is now more usually referred to as the goalposts (see goalpost n. 3a).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > goal
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > [noun] > ground > goal-post or bar
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1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande ii. f. 5/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I I purpose..before he beare the ball to the goale, to trippe him, if I may.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 73v The residue draw into the midst betweene both goals, where some indifferent person throweth vp a ball, the which whosoeuer can catch, and cary through his aduersaries goale, hath wonne the game.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion i. 7 Or when the Ball to throw, And driue it to the Gole.
1672 R. Wild Let. Declar. Liberty Conscience 12 Let our Ministers stand by and keep our Gole, and strike never a stroke..and let any point..be the Foot-ball.
1715 tr. G. Panciroli Hist. Memorable Things Lost I. ii. vi. 78 A Foot-Ball, this being laid in the middle, two young Men did violently contend, which should drive it through the others Goal.
1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. xi. 365 Which ever side first causes it to reach their own goal, reckons towards the game.
1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) 100 One catches the ball in his racket, and..endeavors to carry it to the goal [in Lacrosse].
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. v. 109 But how do you keep the ball between the goals?
1891 H. Johnston Kilmallie II. xix. 110 The second, third, and fourth players..sent their stones hurtling along the as yet unpolished ice towards the goal.
1921 D. Byrne Messer Marco Polo (1922) xx. 134 What is a kiss from the finest of women but a pleasant thing, like..the ball through the goal before the whistle blows?
2002 S. Wales Evening Post (Nexis) 30 Aug. 16 At the moment..we use plastic bags to mark out the goal but I've put in an application for sports lottery funding so hopefully we will get some money for equipment.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 21 Dec. (Sports section) 8/5 He performed a pirouette with the puck and backhanded it into the goal.
(b) Basketball and Netball. A structure consisting of an elevated horizontal hoop, typically with netting suspended below, into or through which players attempt to throw the ball in order to score; spec. the hoop, the basket.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > basketball > [noun] > goal
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > basketball > [noun] > basket
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1892 Evening Herald (Syracuse, N.Y.) 16 Dec. 4/5 The goal keeper should be tall and agile, his business being to keep the ball out of the goal or basket.
1956 J. McCreary Winning High School Basketball iv. 43 A player who cannot ‘dunk’ the ball—get above the goal and drop the ball through—must use the board on a straight drive-in shot.
1993 Bulletin (Sydney) 29 June 112/3 More critical..to the continued vitality of Australian netball are girls such as 10-year-old Leonie Coad. She sits close to the goal where her idol, Wilson, is flipping the ball into the hoop.
2012 B. Brill Illustr. Hist. Duke Basketball (new ed.) ix. 69/2 He took two dribbles, then heaved the ball at the basket. It slammed into the glass, and back into the goal.
b. The act of sending the ball, puck, etc., into or through the goal (sense 4a); the unit of scoring awarded for this. Also in figurative contexts.In early use sometimes with admixture of sense 4a(a). In quot. a1640 apparently a metonym for the game itself.drop goal, field goal, golden goal, own goal, etc.: see the first element.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > characteristics of team ball games > [noun] > scoring
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a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. I4v I'll play a gole at Camp ball.
1641 S. Marshall Peace-offering 20 Though they may carry the ball long at their foot, they can never winne the goale.
1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant iv. 11/1 There are two sides which play against one another, striving which shall be Masters of the Ball, by getting the Goal of each other.
1764 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 vi. 470 Sometimes would be two days together before either side got a goal.
1845 W. D. Arnold et al. Football Rules of Rugby School in J. Reason & C. James World of Rugby (1979) i. 13 No goal may be kicked from Touch.
1886 Football, Lacrosse, Rounders: Laws 26 A [lacrosse] match shall be decided by a majority of goals taken within a specified time.
1895 Ld. Wolseley Decline & Fall Napoleon ii. 74 The ball was at his [sc. Napoleon's] foot; but he turned back instead of making a goal.
1929 Encycl. Brit. III. 182/2 The duty of the forwards [in basket-ball] is primarily to make goals.
1991 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 14 Apr. 66 Wayne Henwood..converted Richmond goals into behinds as he stretched and touched shots destined to pass through the big sticks.
2005 S. Lowe & A. McArthur Is it just Me or is Everything Shit? (2006) 168 How could Man City possibly score more goals than West Brom?
c. Polo. A unit used to express a player's skill and estimated worth to his or her team, and hence to calculate a player's handicap. Cf. goaler n. 2.
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1890 Boston Daily Advertiser 19 Aug. 8/4 Of the Harvards, Messrs. Baldwin and Agassiz were handicapped one goal, and of the Morristowns Thorn was handicapped three goals.
1945 Life 12 Feb. 116/2 One of the world's top polo players, he has a rating of nine goals.
1998 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Aug. (Sports Page) 7 Prince Charles..having once played off a 4-goal handicap.., now languishes at an unpretentious 2-goal.
2012 H. A. Laffaye Polo in Brit. iv. xxv. 280 The arbitrary figure of ten goals as the top handicap has remained as the mark of excellence in polo.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target
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1662 Noble Birth Robin Hood sig. B4v And now the Kings Archers had shot three Goles [printed Goes], and were three for none.
1763 W. Woty Blossoms of Helicon 151 The well-directed arrow reach'd the goal.
1830 W. Kennedy Arrow & Rose 14 He measured o'er the shooting space; Planted an orange on a pole, And pointing said, ‘Behold the goal!’
6. The name of various games and sports; spec. (a) (in plural) Eton College (an early or informal name for) the field game (historical and rare in later use); (b) U.S. regional (chiefly northern) (usually in form gool) tag or any of various similar chasing games (cf. sense 7).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others
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1765–6 Nugae Etonenses in W. Sterry Ann. King's Coll. Eton (1898) 185 Bally Cally, Battledores, Peg-top, Peg in the ring, Goals, Hopscotch, Heading, [etc.]
1827 G. Griffin Tales Munster Festivals III. 130 A group of sturdy boys at their game of evening goal or hurly.
1884 Harper's Mag. Jan. 304/1 A sort of shinney..or what we used to call, when we were boys, ‘gool’. I suppose we meant goal, or golf.
1884 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Nov. 79/2 Perhaps a primitive sort of football, ‘goals’ as it seems to have been called at Eton in the last century, was the game.
1899 H. Garland Boy Life on Prairie v. 53 Nearly all the boys and girls of the neighbourhood met..to play ‘gool’ or ‘pom-pom pullaway’ upon the frozen ponds.
1960 G. Lyttelton Let. 14 Dec. in Lyttelton Hart-Davis Lett. (1983) V. 183 The boy's one ambition was to play goals for his house in the final.
1994 F. E. S. Pearson Cuttin' Didos 51 We played Goal, we called it Gool, and Simon Says, Hopscotch, Tag.
7. Originally Scottish. Now chiefly U.S. regional (chiefly northern). In tag or similar children's chasing games (cf. sense 6(b)): (the name of) the place where a team or player is safe from being tagged or caught. Cf. base n.1 18a, home n.1 9a.
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1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. at Barla-breikis One stack is fixed on as the dule or goal; and one person is appointed to catch the rest of the company, who run out from the dule.
1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights I. xiv. 148 You can't play tag continual, without a gool to run to!
1904 Granite Monthly July 29/2 Two spots were marked and called ‘gools’, between which the children must run, and could be ‘tagged’ or touched anywhere off the gools.
1966 R. L. Welsch Treasury Nebraska Pioneer Folklore iii. 293 The player who is ‘it’ stands at a goal or base, usually a door, a tree, or the side of a building, and hides his eyes.
1988 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. II. 698 He/she couldn't be tagged while touching gool.
Phrases
P1. Rugby. In phrases denoting an attempt to kick the ball between the goalposts and over the crossbar in order to score a point or points, as drop at goal, kick at goal, etc.Recorded earliest in try at goal n. at try n. Additions.
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1845 W. D. Arnold et al. Football Rules of Rugby School in J. Reason & C. James World of Rugby (1979) i. 13 Try at goal... The ball, when punted, must be within, when caught, without the line of Goal; the ball must be place kicked and not dropped.
1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 411/2 The centre will, of course, be on the look out for a drop at goal.
1989 Independent (Nexis) 20 Nov. 31 Martin Strett and Simon Langford missed five out of seven pots at goal.
2015 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 15 Nov. Referee George Clancy continued to award Farrell kicks at goal, with the England fly-half nudging his side 19-0 ahead.
P2. in goal (also goals): in the position of goalkeeper or goaltender.
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1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days vi. 130 They on their parts waived all ceremony,..and remembering Tom's performance in goal, voted East's new crony a brick.
1896 Montreal Daily Star 6 Jan. 5/1 For the visitors, Chittock in goals played a good match.
1912 Strand Mag. Jan. 22/2 Clarence in goal was the nearest approach to an indiarubber acrobat..to be seen off the music-hall stage.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Sept. 21/7 His long blast was deflected by defenseman Jim McKenny's glove and skittered past a surprised Bruce Gamble in goal.
1997 C. Brookmyre Country of Blind (2001) vii. 173 You used tae play in goals, didn't you?
2007 Woodstock (Ont.) Sentinel-Rev. (Nexis) 29 Jan. 9 Many wondered..how a short, roly-poly looking guy could be so nimble in goal.
P3. American Football.
a. goal to go: the situation in which the offensive team has made a first down within ten yards of the goal line, and thus must score in that series of downs or surrender possession.Cf. first down n. at first adj., adv., and n.2 Compounds 1b(b).
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1912 La Crosse (Wisconsin) Tribune 28 Oct. 12/4 It was fourth down and goal to go and Hanson took the ball around the end for three yards.
1932 Boys' Life Dec. 38/3 ‘First down for Garrett!’ announced the referee. ‘Goal to go!’
1997 J. Morgan Glory for Sale ii. 43 On third down and goal to go, several Colts players missed the call.
2004 T. Owens & S. Singular Catch This! xxxiii. 224 With goal to go, Jeff ran a bootleg to the right and turned toward the end zone.
b. In phrases indicating that the offensive team has made a first down within ten yards of the goal line, and thus must score in that series of downs or surrender possession, as first down and goal, second and goal, etc. Short for goal to go at Phrases 3a.Cf. first down n. at first adj., adv., and n.2 Compounds 1b(b).
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1926 Portsmouth (Ohio) Daily Times 13 Nov. 3/3 Michigan's ball on Ohio State's 6 yard line. First down goal.
1931 Boys' Life Dec. 59/2 First down and goal..second down, and four..third down, and two!
1976 Washington Post 25 Sept. c5/5 Michael Ware carried four times for 22 yards to set up second-and-goal at the five.
2007 T. Dungy Quiet Strength iii. 32 On first down and goal from their seven yard line, I changed the play.
P4. U.S. colloquial. to knock (someone) for a goal: to strike (a person) forcefully, to knock down or defeat soundly; (figurative) to utterly overcome or overwhelm. Cf. goal v. 3. Now rare.Cf. also to knock (someone) for six at six adj. 2h(b), to knock for a loop at loop n.1 4f.
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1913 Lake County Times (Hammond, Indiana) 10 Sept. 3/3 If they'll only put me on with him I'll guarantee the [boxing] promoters that I'll knock him for a goal.
1921 R. Lardner Big Town i. 16 My wife's mighty easy to look at when she hasn't got those watery blues, but I never did see a gal that knocked you for a goal when her nose was in full bloom.
1928 R. Fisher Walls of Jericho iii. 31 Hit a guy crossin' the speedway—knocked him f' a gool, the dumbbell.
1967 Pasadena (Calif.) Independent 20 Jan. 17/3 In nearly every batch of letters from readers I see such remarks as..: ‘Is high blood pressure more important to you than Serum Hepatitis which knocked me for a goal recently?’
1980 N.Y. Times 12 Oct. iii. 20 There are times when mere figures of speech are knocked for a goal by the literal application of gamesmanship to diplomacy.
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a. General attributive and objective (in sense 4).
goal bar n.
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1862 Laws Football Rugby School 20 No player may stand on the goal bar to prevent it [sc. the ball] going over.
1875 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports (ed. 12) 676/2 The ball hitting the goal or boundary posts, or goal bar or tape, and rebounding into play, is considered in play.
1986 Washington Post (Nexis) 28 Apr. c1 Craig Laughlin..smashed his stick repeatedly on the goal bar until it was reduced to splinters.
2015 New Nation (Bangladesh) (Nexis) 7 Feb. After four minutes Thailand was deprived from a goal when Pakorn's curve shot bounced back from the goal bar.
goal chance n.
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1896 Marion (Iowa) Reg. 28 Oct. Our boys being weak in goal kicking, missed two goal chances.
1936 Auckland Star 13 July 13/6 Fiji attacked keenly, Miss Raffles missing a goal chance from a penalty bully.
1970 D. Coleman World Cup 70 Preview 37 Gianni Rivera, key man in the attack—a quick, clever ball player who lays on goal chances.
2001 M. Breheny & D. Keenan Ultimate Encycl. Gaelic Football & Hurling 151 Dublin's full-forward Jimmy Keaveney was presented with a goal chance.
goalscorer n.
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1886 Dundee Courier & Argus 8 Jan. Tom Cook..has developed into a crack goal scorer.
1927 N.Y. Times 13 Dec. 36/2 Frankie Boucher of the New York Rangers continues to lead the goalscorers of the National Hockey League, according to the scoring and penalty statistics.
1961 Times 20 Jan. 17/4 The embracing and mobbing of the goal-scorer is entirely unnecessary.
1993 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 17 Apr. Jones, 23, was the highest goalscorer (22 goals) at the Australian water polo championships in Perth.
2009 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 15 Jan. (Sport section) 2 Kris Boyd, the Scottish Premier League's leading goalscorer, was made available to Birmingham City.
goalscoring n. and adj.
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1881 Harvard Daily Echo 14 Nov. This..ended the goal scoring, as from this time out Harvard..could not score another point.
1932 Irish Times 8 Oct. 11/2 Bray are not a goal-scoring team as yet, and I will be surprised if they even get a point.
2000 Times 19 Dec. ii. 24/1 It is part of the received wisdom about The Times Fantasy league that goalscoring defenders are the backbone of any successful team.
2011 W. Tidey Life with Sir Alex xviii. 168 Much was owed to the remarkable goalscoring of Van Nistelrooy, who collected 25 in the Premier League and 44 in all competitions.
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(a) Instrumental and objective (in sense 3a), as goal achievement, goal-directedness, goal orientation, etc.; goal-focused, goal-seeking, etc., adjectives.
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1897 A. Small tr. O. Thon in Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 2 729 [Quoting A. E. F. Schäffle] The ‘goal-setting [Ger. zielsetzenden] interworking of a divine world substance’ must not be left out of account.
1926 W. McDougall in C. Murchison Psychologies of 1925 xii. 286 The demonstration of the inadequacy, the relative futility, of all attempts to ignore the purposive, the goal-seeking, nature of all behavior may best be taken from the mouth of the purposive behaviorist.
1949 A. Koestler Insight & Outlook xv. 214 All cultural achievements appear as ersatz formations for goal-inhibited sexuality.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 June 326/5 The essence of life consists in goal-seeking.
1962 N. W. Chamberlain Firm v. 71 Objectives which have been stated for a given subunit may be further broken down along functional lines within that unit, taking goal-focused planning farther and farther down the operational ladder.
1970 Psychiatry 33 362 A change from a patristic culture which values achievement, individual responsibility, goal-directedness, and rationality to a matristic culture which values feelings, intimacy, sensory experiences, and self-exploration.
1989 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Med. 82 545/2 Anger will be generated by an event that hinders need satisfaction or goal achievement but which seems surmountable given the perceived coping potential of the individual.
2010 Cape Times (Nexis) 19 Apr. 3 They [sc. entrepreneurs] need to have drive and goal orientation, energy and persistence, plus a willingness to take calculated risks.
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goal-directed adj.
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1933 Pedagogical Seminar & Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. 42 148 A drive, inferred from goal-directed behavior, is the topic in question.
1947 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 47 p. iii Teleological explanations of intentional goal-directed activities are always understood as reducible to causal explanations with intentions as causes.
2002 Independent (Nexis) 27 Nov. (Features section) 1 We've all seen these self-motivated, driven and goal-directed men and women in airports, their blood pressure rising as they confront hapless airline employees.
goal-driven adj.
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1958 Managem. Rev. (N.Y.) Dec. 29 The requirements of an executive job or the demands of a goal-driven pattern of living.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Jan. (Business section) 4/1 There was a huge push for private philanthropy to be more accountable and to spend more time being goal-driven.
goal-orientated adj.
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1960 Catholic Hist. Rev. 46 216 One of the leading ‘goal-orientated’ relativists.
2004 Nat. Health Nov. 12/1 Be careful you don't become too goal-orientated, too focused on objectives and nothing else.
goal-oriented adj.
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1938 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 18 394 This idea of purpose as goal-oriented behavior..is more elaborately developed by Tolman.
1949 Explor. in Entrepreneurial Hist. 1 14 Capitalism is characterized by..a set of goal-oriented notions.
2008 St. Petersburg (Russia) Times 23 May 10 (advt.,) We are looking for someone who is currently working as a manager with team building, who is goal-oriented and clear in their leadership.
goal setting adj. and n.
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1897Goal-setting [see Compounds 1b(a)].
1923 School Rev. 31 218 Ideals and attitudes are greatly influenced by a contemplation of what men have done,..more especially if the contacts be made in the period of youth and adolescence when hero-worship and goal-setting characterize the relations.
1953 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 58 570/1 The individual is not envisaged as a goal-setting or goal-achieving creature.
2009 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 12 Oct. d6 Goal setting is meant to set a vision in our minds and make self-discipline seem easier.
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goal area n. (a) the marked area in front of the goal in various sports; esp. (Association Football) = six-yard area n. at six adj. and n. Additions; (b) Rugby, American Football, etc., the area within which a try or touchdown is scored; the in-goal area, the end zone.
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centreline1863
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territory1867
goalmouth1871
box1881
half1888
goal area1902
penalty area1905
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area1925
D1927
keyhole1936
penalty spot1937
six-yard box1954
1902 Manch. Guardian 21 Apr. 3/2 The Rules Committee of the Football Association propose a new method of marking the ground... Oblong goal areas, twenty yards by six yards deep,..and penalty areas, forty-four yards long by eighteen yards deep.
1929 Washington Post 18 Nov. 15 The institute was in a scoring position on several occasions,..losing the ball twice within 15 yards of the Washington goal area.
1993 Times of India 13 Dec. 26/4 Goalkeeper Sebastiano Rossi left the goal area to grab a shot.
2000 Irish Times 24 Nov. 16/6 The ball rebounded off an upright after a penalty kick..and hit touch judge Ed Morrison before bouncing back from the goal area.
2015 F. L. Radu & B. A. Abalasei 101 Team Handball iii. 75 As a general rule, the ball cannot be thrown from the players' own half of the court to the opposite goal area.
goal attack n. (a) (in various team sports) the action or an act of attempting to score a goal; (also) the player or players on a team responsible for this (now somewhat rare); (b) (now usually) Netball a player whose principal duties are to score goals and to assist the goal shooter by creating opportunities for scoring; (also) the position of such a player.Cf. goal defence n.
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1896 Northern Echo (Darlington) 16 Nov. 4/5 Middlesborough cleared finely a goal attack.
1926 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 21 Mar. ii. /11 The capital city team exhibited a phenomenal brand of basketball.., uncorking the most brilliant goal attack ever known in the history of the state games.
1930 M. K. Gibbard Pastimes & Sports for Girls xiii. 91 Either the goal-shooter, or the goal-attack may shoot for goal, provided she is inside the goal circle.
1963 Times 6 Aug. 3/2 Many chances were lost through their goal attack and shooter both staying outside their circle to receive the ball.
1986 Jrnl. Sports Med. & Physical Fitness June 116/1 This..suggests that those players more involved in goal attack are lighter, slimmer, and fitter than those players concerned with goal defence.
2016 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 31 Mar. (Sport section) 12 A heady player, who moves easily between goal attack or goal shoot, the 26-year-old can carry the shooting load or be your dominant feeder.
goal average n. originally Association Football the number of goals scored by a team in a competition or series of matches divided by the number it has conceded, often used as a criterion by which teams with the same number of points are ranked in a table; cf. goal difference n.In Association Football now widely replaced by goal difference as a method for ranking teams.In early use often expressed in terms of a ratio.
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goal difference1959
1885 Notts. Guardian 6 Feb. (Suppl.) 4/5 The North End fancied that they were going to have almost a walk-over, and increase their goal average.
1892 Football News 20 Feb. 1/7 The Ilkeston players say their goal average is 120 against 20.
1907 St. George's Gaz. 28 Feb. 21/1 Our Hockey Team has been distinguishing itself lately, for..we have succeeded in winning all our matches. The goal average, too, has been rather remarkable.
1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 4 Sept. Australia failed to make the final eight at the junior world men's water polo championships..when they could manage no better than a 7-7 draw with Bulgaria who made the medal round on a superior goal average.
2014 H. Redknapp Man Walks onto Pitch (2015) ii. 82 Leeds lost the league title on goal average that season.
goal cage n. North American (chiefly Ice Hockey) a goal consisting of a framework covered, except for the goalmouth, with netting or wire mesh; cf. cage n. Additions b.
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1885 Boston Daily Globe 13 Feb. 4/3 He does not trouble himself to go round the goal cage, but likes a somersault over the obstacle.
1948 Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil 17 Mar. 6/3 Tuesday's record crowd..was hardly seated comfortably before the Knights almost tore the netting off Harry McQueston's goal cage.
1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 24 Mar. He left his goal cage and went down in an effort to block a shot and suffered what is thought to be a dislocated shoulder.
1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Nov. xi. 4/4 Through the years field hockey, played on fields similar to the ones used for soccer—with netted goal cages on each end—has undergone few changes.
2013 Blade (Toledo, Ohio) (Nexis) 24 Feb. (Sports section) Matt Syroczynski's shot bounced off the goal cage.
goal celebration n. chiefly Association Football an action or series of actions performed by a player or team immediately after scoring a goal, in order to mark their achievement.
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1980 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 8 Nov. The producer then cuts to another shot of the post-goal celebration and then to yet another for crowd reaction.]
1980 Guardian 6 Dec. (Sports section) 24/6 On the question of goal celebrations a contrary view emerged..: ‘The business of running to the crowd after scoring is certainly overdone and in my view is incitement.’
1998 Total Football Nov. 79 Ben..picks out the finest arm-pumping, hip-wiggling, shirt-stripping goal celebrations.
2005 T. Theobald & C. Cooper Business & Beautiful Game iii. 38 Aware of the importance of the goal celebration, many players have taken it to extremes, performing almost tribal rituals.
goal circle n. (in various team sports and games) a marked area in front of or surrounding the goal; (now) spec. (a) chiefly Hockey and Lacrosse either of the marked areas in front of or surrounding the goal at each end of the pitch (cf. goal crease n.); (b) Netball either of the marked semicircular areas surrounding the goals at each end of the court, within which the goal shooter or goal attack may take a shot at goal.In quot. 1884 with reference to roller polo (see roller polo n. at roller n.1 Compounds 5).
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1884 Biddeford (Maine) Daily Jrnl. 9 Dec. The Biddefords [claimed] a foul..because the Bijous entered the goal circle.
1895 Bristol Mercury 24 Oct. 3/5 The St. George [football] ground not having had goal circles marked in their match against the Swindon Wanderers they were asked to have the same seen to in future.
1903 Times of India 22 May Hockey in Bomb... For a considerable period of play [the team] were kept well within their own goal circle.
1930 M. K. Gibbard Pastimes & Sports for Girls xiii. 91 Either the goal-shooter, or the goal-attack may shoot for goal, provided she is inside the goal circle.
1958 E. Halsey & L. R. Porter Physical Educ. for Children ix. 222 The goals may be Indian clubs, tin cans, or any improvised marker... One member of each team..stands close to the goal circle his team is defending and tries to keep the goal from being hit.
1982 Irish Times 15 Mar. 2/5 The final quarter [of the hockey match] was played out almost in its entirety in Irish territory and a high percentage in or around the goal circle.
2003 J. Crossingham Lacrosse in Action 9/1 No one but the goalie is allowed in the goal circle.
2014 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 30 Nov. (Sport section) 56 Her feeding into the goal circle is considered impeccable, able to thread balls to her shooters through seemingly impossible angles.
goal crease n. Ice Hockey and Lacrosse a marked area in front of or surrounding each goal within which the goaltender has unique rights and the ways in which attacking players are allowed to interfere with or impede him or her are restricted; = crease n.2 2b.In Ice Hockey attacking players are only allowed to enter the crease with a stick, skate, or any part of the body after the puck has already done so. In Lacrosse attacking players are never allowed to enter the crease, though they are allowed to reach into it with their sticks in certain circumstances.
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1868 Our Boys & Girls 14 Nov. 733/1 Goal-keeper, while defending goal within the goal-crease, may stop balls in any manner.
1886 Football, Lacrosse, Rounders: Laws 28 Goal Crease shall be a ground-space six feet square in front of the goal-posts.
1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 1 Nov. 15/6 Captain Allan Hindmarch had had a goal disallowed because a player was stood in the goal-crease.
2010 A. Podnieks Hockey Superstitions 108 Hextall practised his shot every day and could fire the puck from his goal crease over the glass at the far end.
goal defence n. (a) (in various team sports) the action or an act of attempting to prevent the opposition from scoring a goal; (also) the player or players on a team responsible for this (now somewhat rare); (b) (now usually) Netball a player whose principal duties are to defend against attacking play and keep the ball out of the goal circle; (also) the position of such a player.Cf. goal attack n.
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1869 W. G. Beers Lacrosse xiii. 215 Why does each succeeding year develop better red-skin goal defence?
1913 Chinese Students' Monthly Feb. 282 The [football] game was warmly contested from beginning to end. Nanyang, however, boasted of a better goal defence.
1930 M. K. Gibbard Pastimes & Sports for Girls xiii. 90/1 (list of netball player positions) Goal Attack..Goal Defence.
1963 Times 7 Aug. 3/2 Mrs. Muir gave an inspired display as goal defence, and the English attacks simply were kept out of the circle.
1986 Jrnl. Sports Med. & Physical Fitness June 116/1 This..suggests that those players more involved in goal attack are lighter, slimmer, and fitter than those players concerned with goal defence.
2016 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 31 Mar. (Sport section) 42 Bianca Chatfield's former understudy has star billing at goal defence.
goal difference n. the difference between the number of goals scored by a team in a competition or series of matches and the number it has conceded, often used as a criterion by which teams with the same number of points are ranked in a table; cf. goal average n., points difference n. at point n.1 Compounds 3.In Association Football goal difference was first used in place of goal average for the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.
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goal difference1959
1959 Observer 22 Mar. 31/5 [The Canadians] secured the title over the Russians on a goal difference.
1976 Scotsman 27 Dec. 12/3 Celtic stay ahead of the pack by virtue of goal difference and share the leading total of 20 points from 14 games with Aberdeen.
1993 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 Aug. 33 Scotland were pipped on goal difference for second place after having finished level on three points with Canada in Group 1 at the fourth IFWLA lacrosse World Cup.
2012 T. F. Grainey Beyond Bend it like Beckham ii. vi. 132 The team..missed the semifinals on goal difference.
goal-dropper n. Rugby (chiefly Rugby Union) a player who is skilled at kicking drop goals.
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1891 Western Mail (Cardiff) 29 Dec. 3/6 Thompson, in whom I believe I recognise the old Cheltenham goal-dropper.
1962 Times 24 Feb. 3/2 All France loves a goal dropper.
2011 Sunday Times (Irish ed.) (Nexis) 4 Sept. 9 The tournament's best player, Juan Hernandez, was deployed mainly as bomblauncher and goal-dropper.
goal end n. †(a) the finishing point of a race (obsolete); (b) (in various team sports) either of the ends of the pitch, rink, etc., in the centre of which the goal is located; also attributive, designating something situated at this end of a pitch, rink, etc.In sense (a) in figurative descriptions of the Christian life as a race.
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a1555Gole end [see sense 2b].
a1626 L. Andrewes XCVI Serm. (1629) 368 He is the Finisher, holding out the price at the gole end.
1872 Irish Times 5 Aug. 3/1 At the goal end is erected a screen, in the centre of which is a bag net, into which it is necessary that the ball should be hit.
1965 J. B. McLendon in H. McLane Championship Basketball by 12 Great Coaches iv. 77 He may dribble the sideline a short distance and then veer toward the center and top of the circle in his goal-end of the court.
1986 Specialty Law Digest: Educ. 5 599/2 The goal end seats were the first to fill.
2013 Irish Daily Mail (Nexis) 16 May 57 Eight high-speed cameras (four at each goal end of Croke Park) will be used to detect whether the ball/sliotar has registered as a score or a wide.
goal-getter n. (a) chiefly Association Football a player who scores a goal; a skilled goalscorer; (b) Golf a player who makes a hole-in-one (rare).
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1874 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 1 Sept. 7/4 The following are, as precisely as it could be ascertained, the goal getters during the day: [etc.].
1887 M. Shearman Athletics & Football (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) ii. iv. 345 The doctor had the reputation of being the best centre and goal-getter in Scotland.
1932 W. H. Auden Orators iii. 102 Goal-getter, holer-in-one.
1987 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 21 Nov. Olczyk isn't a natural goal-getter and he's not likely to outscore Vaive, but there is more to the game than being the last man to touch the puck before it enters the net.
2015 Kidderminster Shuttle (Nexis) 1 Sept. The former Newport goal-getter was unable to replicate the form that helped the Welsh side win promotion to the Football League.
goal-getting n. and adj. originally and chiefly Association Football (a) n. the action of scoring a goal; (b) adj. that scores a goal or goals.
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1873 Derby Mercury 3 Dec. 8/3 Their constant attention to the war cry, ‘let it go out’, made goal getting anything but easy.
1886 Blackburn Standard 20 Mar. 2/7 Ferguson was the next to show up in the goal getting line [of players], and Graham scored the fifth with a beauty.
1949 N.Y. Times 9 Feb. 39 Abel tops the circuit [sc. the National Hockey League's individual scoring parade] in goal-getting with 20.
1969 Irish Times 29 Sept. 4/7 Sligo's new player..does not seem to be the answer to Rover's problem of having a goal-getting striker.
2016 Daily Nation (Kenya) (Nexis) 13 Jan. He's one of the most disciplined footballers..and a gem in goal-getting. He's a predator in front of goal.
goal-hanger n. originally and chiefly Association Football (chiefly depreciative) a player who stays close to the opposition's goal, focusing solely on goalscoring and rarely becoming involved in the wider game.
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1967 Washington Post 20 May d5/2 (heading) Offside rule eliminates goal hangers.
1992 Independent (Nexis) 7 Sept. (Sport section) 27 In the school playground he would have been called a goal-hanger and he has the work-rate of a couch potato.
2010 P. Daniels Class Actor iv. 29 It was just what everyone was into: being a goal-hanger in the school playground, and coming out on top in 37–22 victories.
goal judge n. chiefly Ice Hockey an official whose role is to indicate when a goal has been scored.
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1880 Geelong (Austral.) Advertiser 17 Sept. Messrs A. Whyte and Thomas acted as goal judges, Mr Nicholls watching the kickers at the distances.
1981 Changing Times Dec. 84/2 Off the ice are two goal judges, who sit behind and above the goals and signal whenever the puck is in the cage.
2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 29 June b11/6 FIFA would consider adding two extra officials who would act as goal judges, one at each end of the field.
goalminder n. a goalkeeper, goaltender.
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1874 North Melbourne Advertiser 10 July A couple of tries at goal..were both well stopped by that most good humored of goal minders, Power.
1936 Mich. Alumnus 12 Dec. 166/1 The Wolverine defense..gave more help to its goal-minder.
2013 Cape Argus (Nexis) 17 Dec. (Sport section) 38 Siphiwe Tshabalala's effort from the edge of the area in first-half injury time drew a routine save from Tuks goalminder Washington Arubi.
goalmouth n. chiefly Association Football and Hockey the space directly between the goalposts through which players attempt to send the ball, puck, etc., in order to score; (also more generally) the area immediately in front of the goal.
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outfield1851
goal line1862
centreline1863
goalside1865
territory1867
goalmouth1871
box1881
half1888
goal area1902
penalty area1905
orchard1913
penalty box1914
area1925
D1927
keyhole1936
penalty spot1937
six-yard box1954
1871 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 24 Jan. W. Ward, by an excellent kick, landing one into the goal mouth.
1899 Captain 2 127 Filling the goal-mouth in the event of a corner-kick against their side.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 7 Oct. 4/2 The yawning goal-mouth was not fed with that elusive leather sphere.
1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 10 Mar. Doing the splits across the goalmouth is a common occurrence among goaltenders while plying their hazardous trade.
1987 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 5 Dec. The Dutch team equalised..in the 24th minute when they earned a penalty stroke after a goalmouth melee.
2003 Daily Mirror 29 Jan. 47/3 It was added time when Bolton skipper Gudni Bergsson grabbed a consolation, prodding home through a crowded goalmouth.
goal net n. the net covering the framework of the goal behind the goalmouth.
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1891 Birmingham Daily Post 12 Jan. 7/5 The newly patented goal-nets will be given a trial.
1965 Men's Hockey (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) (rev. ed.) 6 Goal-boards..are placed at the foot of the goal-nets.
1989 D. Morrow & M. Keyes Conc. Hist. Sport in Canada 66 Although leadership in lacrosse generally flowed from east to west, major innovations, such as the use of goal nets.., did affect the game across the country.
2014 Oxf. Mail (Nexis) 10 Nov. More than 50 children take part in football clubs as part of our after school club but these will be disrupted now that we have no goal nets.
goal-poacher n. originally and chiefly Association Football a forward player characterized by opportunistic, regular goalscoring, typically from close range.Sometimes mildly depreciative, implying a lack of effort in general play; cf. goal-hanger n.
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1956 Manch. Guardian 8 Oct. 10/7 Neither the duties of goal-poacher nor those of deep inside forward fully employ his footballing gifts.
1998 K. Sampson Extra Time 175 He [sc. Robbie Fowler] and Shearer are the only real goal poachers in the England frame.
2011 Irish Times 27 Apr. (Sports section) 1/4 Hernandez is a terrific goal-poacher, a snapper-up of trifles in the penalty area, with an instinct for the direct approach.
goal shooter n. (in various team sports) a player who scores or shoots a goal or point(s), or one who is skilled at this; (now chiefly) Netball a player whose principal duty is to score goals, or the position of such a player.In quot. 1897 in plural as a name for a basketball team.
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1897 Sportsman's Mag. Jan. 294/2 The Athletic Association has..given official recognition to the ‘goal-shooters’.
1903 N.Y. Times 31 May 9/1 Gladney, one of the smallest men on the field, was the most accurate goal shooter.
1959 J. Fingleton Four Chukkas to Austral. 155 The soccer field where the players fall upon the neck of the goal-shooter.
1991 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 14 Apr. 66/10 Australian goalshooter Vicki Wilson is doing more than her share of putting back into netball what she has got out of it.
2015 A. Sheryn & C. Sheryn Netball Pract. Bible vii. 167 Most young players want to be goal shooter (GS) or goal attack (GA).
goal third n. Netball either of the two thirds of the court (at each end), which contain the goal circles.
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1923 Evening Post (Dunedin, N.Z.) 25 Sept. 10/2 Their best play was in their goal third, where Miss Woodham did good work, scoring eight of their points.
1951 Netball ‘Know the Game’ Ser. 5 Court is divided down side lines into three equal thirds, named centre third and goal thirds.
2014 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 Nov. (Sport section) 55 Halpenny sunk a three-pointer right on the halftime whistle, barely a foot inside the goal third.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
goalv.
/ɡəʊl/, U.S. /ɡoʊl/ 1. In various team sports and games. Cf. net v.1 4.
a. transitive. To hit, throw, or kick (the ball, puck, etc.) successfully into the goal, net, etc. Now rare.
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1815 Sporting Mag. June 138/1 A grand camping match.., which was so equally contested by the sturdy competitors (twenty-four on each side), that neither party goaled the ball, and it was declared a bye.
1894 T. A. Dodge Riders of Many Lands lxxiv. 459 If this [polo] side can also goal this last ball, it wins.
1908 N.Y. Times 30 Dec. 11/3 (header) Bay Ridge skaters lack speed and accuracy of Collegians in goaling the puck.
1953 Irish Times 7 Dec. 11/2 Ring broke away, was fouled in possession, and goaled the free at the 40th minute.
b. intransitive. To score a goal.
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1924 Scotsman 30 Jan. 10 Ice hockey tournament... Just on time Hasslen goaled for France.
1932 N.Y. Times 21 Jan. (Sports section) 25/4 Hayes goaled and All Hallows went on defense for the remaining time [of the basketball game].
1956 Irish Times 28 May 3/8 Columba's put in some fast hurling and they recovered the lead in an exciting game when Carey goaled.
2014 North West Star (Austral.) (Nexis) 29 Apr. 18 Rangers goaled with five minutes to go to equalize the [netball] game.
2. spec.
a. intransitive. American Football and (now chiefly) Rugby. To score a point or points by kicking the ball between the goalposts and over the crossbar after a try or touchdown, or (in rugby) from a penalty kick. Cf. goal kick n. 1a.
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pack1874
heel1884
scrum1890
goal1900
drop1905
to give (or sell) the (or a) dummy1907
ruck1910
jinka1914
to drop out1917
fly-kick1930
scissor1935
quick-heel1936
short-punt1937
touch-kick1954
grubber-kick1958
peel1960
corner-flag1962
to chip and chase1970
box kick1977
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goal1900
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interfere1920
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lateral1927
lateral1930
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to hand off1937
shovel pass1948
bootleg1951
scramble1964
spear1964
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convert1970
1900 Outing Jan. 422/1 Both touchdowns were made at a bad angle for goaling.
1911 Rugby Football & Cricket 14 Oct. 34/2 Cleary goaled from the touch line.
1920 Princeton Alumni Weekly 13 Oct. 42/2 The best sustained advance of the day resulted in Garrity being sent over for another touchdown, from which Keck goaled.
2012 Hull Daily Mail (Nexis) 24 Sept. 27 Ashley James goaled and added one to his own 33rd-minute try.
b. transitive. Rugby. To convert (a try) or kick (a penalty goal).
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pot1856
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to dot down1956
1900 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 4 Jan. 6/7 The visitors got on a passing run, a fine effort culminating in a try, which was not goaled.
1922 Weekly Disp. 29 Oct. 10 Bennett..intercepted a pass and scored a try, which Tebbutt goaled.
1954 J. B. G. Thomas On Tour 138 Saxton made a magnificent blind-side burst which put Sherratt over for a second try, which Cook goaled.
2015 Blackpool Gaz. (Nexis) 5 Sept. Loughborough..winning a penalty goaled by John Hargreaves.
3. transitive. U.S. colloquial. To strike (a person) forcefully, to knock down or defeat soundly; also (figurative) to greatly surprise, impress, or overwhelm someone. Cf. to knock (someone) for a goal at goal n. Phrases 4. Now rare.
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1921 Variety 4 Feb. 29/3 If he keeps goalin' them [sc. his boxing opponents] I should worry.
1933 B. Hecht & G. Fowler Great Magoo i. iii. 74 I'm gonna give them the bells on the repeat. I'll gool 'em.
1943 S. J. Perelman Let. 7 Apr. in Don't tread on Me (1987) 53 Your fans are still legion. I really thought you goaled them and especially loved the business of playing straight to yourself on puns like ‘aria’.
1976 J. Cagney Cagney by Cagney iii. 54 Instead of pulling away slightly, she stuck her chin out and I really goaled her.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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