goat
- 1Any animal with hooves from the group that scientists call Capra.
The goat climbed onto the rock to eat the leaves.
The farmer keeps a herd of goats behind the barn.
- 2Short for greatest of all time. People use it for the best person ever at something.
My grandma makes the best pie in town. She's the GOAT.
Fans argue all day about who the GOAT of basketball is.
UsageUsually the GOAT, written in capital letters.
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- 3Meat that comes from a goat.
Grandma cooked goat with rice and beans for the party.
I tried goat for the first time, and it was very tender.
UsageSay goat, with no a, for the meat.
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- 6The eighth of the twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac, each linked to a year.
My sister was born in the Year of the Goat.
On the poster, the Goat comes right after the Horse.
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- 8To let goats eat the grass and plants on a piece of land.
- 9A Pontiac GTO, a kind of car.
- 10A person whose voice is hard for speech recognition software to understand.
- 11In roller derby, a player trapped behind the other team's players so the group skates slower.
- 12In roller derby, to trap a player from the other team behind your own players so the group slows down.
- 13A member of the “government of all the talents” that British prime minister Gordon Brown put forward.
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Origin
From Old English gāt. The meaning "lustful man" comes from the animal's old reputation for lust.
Checked 30 Oct 2026 · 1 fact
- Goat descends from Old English gāt. en.wiktionary.org