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goat

Pronunciation: /ɡəʊt/

The English word “goat” has 11 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. Any ruminant of the genus Capra.
  2. The meat of these animals.
  3. A lecherous man.
  4. A scapegoat.
  5. A Pontiac GTO car.
  6. A person who is not easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with sheep.
  7. A fool, loser, or object of ridicule.
  8. A blocker who is isolated behind the opposing team's blockers, so as to slow down the pack.

verb

  1. To allow goats to feed on.
  2. To scapegoat.
  3. To isolate (an opposing blocker) behind one's own blockers, so as to slow down the pack.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English goot, got, gat, from Old English gāt, from Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits, from a substrate language. The sense of lecherous man derives from the slang expression "horny as a goat".

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