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The soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal
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goalkeeper
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES veteran journalist/actor/goalkeeper etc COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE good ▪ If there's a better goalkeeper in Britain than Big Tommy I have yet to see him. ▪ It was also a good day for goalkeeper Graham Brown, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal [syn: goalie , goaltender , netkeeper , netminder ] the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In many team sports which involve scoring goals , the goalkeeper (termed goaltender, netminder , goalie , or keeper in some sports) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by intercepting shots at goal. Such ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context sports English) a designated player that attempts to prevent the opposing team from scoring by protecting a goal.
Usage examples of goalkeeper.
The goal was one of the most calamitously stupid ever given away by a team of professionals: an inept back-pass (by Ian Ure, naturally), followed by a missed tackle, followed by a goalkeeper (Bob Wilson) slipping over in the mud and allowing the ball to trickle over the line just inside the right-hand post.
Macdonald is in a chase with the centre-half, who gets a foot in, and lifts the ball agonisingly over his own advancing goalkeeper.
And then Arsenal started to bang inch-perfect passes along the ground all over the pitch, and our defenders popped up in the opposing penalty area to lob the opposing goalkeeper with Cruyff-like precision and delicacy, and my suspicion that this was a world gone mad was confirmed.
But Staedler instead heads away from the wing into deeper midfield, beats one defender, then a second-the goalkeeper doesn't know which threat to counter, Staedler or Cramer-and here you can see the gap Staedler spotted, opening up at the near post, and he puts on a burst of acceleration and shoots!