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own goal
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Farncombe took the lead after ten minutes, but Haslemere soon equalised through an own goal .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An own goal is when a player scores in their own team's net or scoring area, not the opposing team's, during sports games in which points-scored are referred to as "goals" (e.g., association football ). An own goal is usually accidental, but is counted ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. (soccer) a goal that results when a player inadvertently knocks the ball into the goal he is defending; "the own goal cost them the game"
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context sports English) A goal that results from a player putting the ball or puck into the goal of his or her own team; the resulting goal being scored for the opposition. 2 (context figuratively English) A blunder that damages one's own prospects. ...
Usage examples of own goal.
All faces were now turned toward this puck, Danlo's and his hallmates', and, behind their own goal line, the tense faces of the Stone Row novices at the field's upper end.
Perhaps the magic came from the fact that each such contributor found, within the scope of Gene Rod-denberry's vision, room to insert his own fantasy passions into that remarkably intricate universe, room to create some segment of his own Goal Effect.
The crowd came to its feet, roaring, as Tom, five steps from his own goal line, tripped and fell headlong to the grass, putting him out of the first play.
But their time was running out and his fellow victims had gone, gone sooner than any historical schedule had promised, and they, the looters, were now left to face the undisguised reality of their own goal.
Defenders are famously quick to disclaim an own goal if it is possible, but the Everton centre-half, staggered by his opponent’.
In their hardness and durability, these plates are an insult to our own goal on this world, to be shriven down to innocence.
He had his own goal and knew, essentially, what he had to do to reach it.
They were the nomads of the inner lands and the off-worlders would have to transverse those in order to reach their own goal.
The military had persuaded Narmonov to remove it, as a precondition to its own goal of a truly professional force, loyal to the country and the new constitution.
My own goal for the journey, about which the President questioned me before my acceptance into the League, was a simple one, but many members of the League had set themselves goals which, although I respected, I could not fully understand.