goaie.html - See: FIELD GOAL.

goaie.html - {n.} A line that marks the goal in a game (as football.) * /The fullback went over the goal line from five yards out./

goaie.html - {n.} A strong defensive effort right in front of the goal line. * /A goal line stand by the home team held the visitors on the two-yard line./

goaie.html - See: GET ONE'S GOAT.

goaie.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a spiked stick used for urging cattle forward.
2 anything that torments, incites, or stimulates.

--v.

tr.
1 urge on with a goad.
2 (usu. foll. by on, into) irritate; stimulate (goaded him into retaliating; goaded me on to win). [OE gad, rel. to Lombard gaida arrowhead f. Gmc]

goaie.html - n.
1 the object of a person's ambition or effort; a destination; an aim (fame is his goal; London was our goal).
2 a Football a pair of posts with a crossbar between which the ball has to be sent to score. b a cage or basket used similarly in other games. c a point won (scored 3 goals).
3 a point marking the end of a race.

goal average Football the ratio of the numbers of goals scored for and against a team in a series of matches. goal difference Football the difference of goals scored for and against. goal-kick 1 Assoc. Football a kick by the defending side after attackers send the ball over the goal-line without scoring.
2 Rugby Football an attempt to kick a goal. goal-line Football a line between each pair of goalposts, extended to form the end-boundary of a field of play (cf. touch-line). goal-minder (or -tender) US a goalkeeper at ice hockey. goal-mouth Football the space between or near the goalposts. in goal in the position of goalkeeper.

goalless adj. [16th c.: orig. unkn.: perh. identical with ME gol boundary]