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It's also called "the uprights" in football
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goalpost
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. one of a pair of posts (usually joined by a crossbar) that are set up as a goal at each end of a playing field
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB move ▪ The answer to failure and sin is not to move the goalposts but to repent and try again. ▪ The traditional Shrove Tuesday football match is to move its goalposts 100 yards downstream. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
goalpost \goalpost\, goal post \goal post\, n. (Sport) One of two posts supporting a crossbar which forms a goal[3], especially in American football; also, in football the entire structure consisting of the posts, crossbar, and two uprights. To score a ...
Usage examples of goalpost.
This retroactive redefinition moves the goalposts by removing the anchor that formed the basis for the investment in the first place.
After he had literally knocked down a wooden goalpost while catching a touchdown pass he had acquired the nickname Sherman, in reference to the tank, and I seldom heard anyone call him Abner, which was his given name.
He saw goalposts and track hurdles and baseball backstops, but what surprised him was the lack of earth.
Eve we did the town, the day we tore the goalposts down, all that nonsense is history, along with some things that went on with the Benedicts that are too terrible for you to sit in your tower and imagine.
He could see all the way to the back fence where the goalposts of his most recent disaster were.
Anyway, while we are watching the goings-on around the goalposts, our little doll says come on and jumps up and runs down an aisle and out onto the field, and into the crowd around the goalposts, so naturally we follow her.
I look at it, the noggin of anybody who will be found giving any time to pulling down goalposts is apt to be soft enough to break a very long fall.
Afterward somebody tells me that the guy probably thinks I am one of the Yales coming to the rescue of the goalposts, but I wish to say I will always have a very low opinion of college guys, because I remember two other guys punch me as I am going through the air, unable to defend myself.
In fact, the geometry of the bleachers, the lectern, and the main media area was such that it was impossible to get a shot of Cozzano without taking in several hundred supporters in the bleachers behind him, all waving hankies and signs, just like fans seated behind the goalposts at a football game.
Their car rebounded and then wove more skillfully through the swerving, swiveling cars, to strike the ball a solid blow that sent it rolling over the hood of another car and far down the field where a car, timing its movement perfectly, hit the ball at the precise angle to send it spinning through goalposts and into a net.
The German player had dribbled his soccer ball downfield an was right at the Russian goalpost when my football bounced in front of him.