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Definition of Goalpost
1. Noun. 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.
Definition of Goalpost
1. Noun. (sports) In American football, the tall Y-shaped upright, now usually of fiberglass, at either end of the playing field, through which a football must go in order to score a field goal. Originally, they were H-shaped, with two wooden posts on either side. ¹
2. Noun. (sports) One of the two side poles of the goal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Goalpost
1. a post that marks a boundary of the scoring area in some games [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Goalpost
Literary usage of Goalpost
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"The game flickered up and down between goalpost and goal-post, and the black
ponies were getting more confident as they felt they had the legs of the others ..."
2. Writing for Print: A Handbook in Journalistic Composition, with Suggestions by Harry Franklin Harrington (1922)
"It would have been almost impossible to boot from the former position, as the
goalpost was directly in back of center. Workman punted. ..."
3. Reading-literature: Seventh Reader by Harriette Taylor Treadwell, Margaret Free, Thomas Henry Briggs (1918)
"... of McCarty's body, a wild rush from the Kennedy and the ball shot high in the
air and, to Stover's horror, passed barely inside the farther goalpost. ..."
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