goat
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Is goat a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. Any hoofed mammal of the genus Capra.Examples: "Ugh, we're having goat for dinner again."; "Joshua could not stop himself from scooping more goat on his plate: Paul had cooked it so long that the meat seemed to melt like hot, syrupy candy in his mouth. Joshua remembered goat as a stringy dark meat, but the red spicy mass before him was nothing like he recalled."uncountable
2. (slang) A lecherous man.countableslanguncountable
3. (informal) A scapegoat.Examples: "Fernando Rodney, the goat in Sunday's 10th inning loss to Tampa Bay, threw three nearly perfect innings in relief on Tuesday after being demoted from the closer role."; "1997, "1997 World Series", Game 7, bottom 11th inning, TV broadcast on NBC Sports, early morning October 27, 1997; words by Bob Costas Tony Fernández, who has worn hero's laurels throughout the postseason including earlier in this seventh game of the World Series, now cruel as it may seem, perhaps being fitted for goat horns."countableinformaluncountable
4. (slang) A Pontiac GTO car.countableslanguncountable
5. (speech recognition) A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.countableuncountable
6. (roller derby) A blocker who is isolated behind the opposing team's blockers, so as to slow down the pack.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To allow goats to feed on.Examples: "Rape and clover has yielded 283 sheep days of pasture, practically dry weather […] For the coming year it is planned to goat this area continuously"transitive
2. (transitive) To scapegoat.Examples: "John Rocker, meanwhile, was spared from getting goated because he didn't blow a save"transitive
3. (transitive, roller derby) To isolate (an opposing blocker) behind one's own blockers, so as to slow down the pack.transitive
noun (English)
1. (acronym) Alternative letter-case form of GOAT (“greatest of all time”).abbreviationacronymalt-of
noun (English)
1. (possibly obsolete) Alternative form of gote (“sluice, waterway”).Examples: "... the present new Sluice or Goat (as they call it) at the end of Hamorebeck, at its fall into Boston Haven, taking up the foundation of the old Goat, they met with the roots of Trees, many of them issuing from their several[…]"; "[...] the Trent floods, which override the sluices and goats, and which operate at present as a bar to the improvement of the drainage of the commons; and lately, by authority of parliament, a canal has been made in a similar way[…]"; "[…] For the Sands from the Mouth of the Sluices and Goats would be carried off and the Haven so deep that their Commons and Low Fens will be will be drain'd in wet Seasons, and always be Supplied with fresh water above the Lock for the use and benefit of the Commons."alt-ofalternativeobsoletepossibly
noun (English)
1. (slang) Acronym of greatest of all time.Examples: "Messi is the GOAT of football."abbreviationacronymalt-ofslang
2. (UK, politics, informal) A member of the "government of all the talents" proposed by British prime minister Gordon Brown.Examples: "The best talents; of course he was a GOAT."; "Lord Jones of Birmingham, aka Digby Jones, the former director general of the CBI, said that in his year in the government as a so-called GOAT (a member of the Government Of All The Talents) he found the civil service to be 'honest, stuffed full of decent people who work hard'."; "2011, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee, Bernard Jenkin, Smaller Government: Report, Together with Formal Minutes One of the problems with the GOATs was that the parliamentary and political role was undersold to them."UKinformal
Definition source: Wiktionary