Goalpost

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  • noun. One of a pair of posts usually joined with a crossbar to form a goal, as in soccer or ice hockey.
  • noun. A post or a pair of posts supporting a crossbar and either supporting or extending into the uprights of a goal, as in football.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One of the upright posts forming one side of the goal. See goal, 2.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One of two posts supporting a crossbar which forms a goal{3}, especially in American football; also, in football the entire structure consisting of the posts, crossbar, and two uprights. To score a goal by kicking the football, the ball must pass above the crossbar and between the vertical lines formed by the uprights.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. One of the two side poles of the goal.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
    • Word Usage
    "And now by trying to convince people that the goalpost is at 2,210 delegates instead of the 2,026 that everyone else recognizes."
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    goal post  
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    post  
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