GOALPOST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does goalpost mean? 

• GOALPOST (noun)
  The noun GOALPOST has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: GOALPOST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOALPOST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("goalpost" is a kind of...):

post (an upright consisting of a piece of timber or metal fixed firmly in an upright position)

Meronyms (parts of "goalpost"):

crossbar (long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts)

upright; vertical (a vertical structural member as a post or stake)

Holonyms ("goalpost" is a part of...):

goal (game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points)