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GOAT
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goat Goat GOAT G. O. A. T. G.O.A.T. go at
English
GOAT (sports culture)
Alternative forms
en G.O.A.T. G. O. A. T. GoAT GoaT Goat goat 🐐 𓃵
Etymology
en greatest OAT :af greatest of all time 1
Abbreviation.
Noun
en slang en greatest of all time.
en Messi is the GOAT of football.
en 2016 Danny Brown Kendrick Lamar; Ab-Soul; Earl Sweatshirt Really Doe (Danny Brown song) Really Doe Atrocity Exhibition (album) Atrocity Exhibition https://open.spotify.com/track/5VRVvhMA1szwwiv7Z7Jfrk Spotify Still wicked as Aleister Crowley, niggas know me wellFor heaven's sake, I'm the GOAT, you haters can go to hell
en UK politics informal A member of the "government of all the talents" proposed by British prime minister Gordon Brown.
2009, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee, Good government: eighth report of session 2008-09, volume 2
The best talents; of course he was a GOAT.
en 2010 Philip Johnston Bad Laws Lord Jones of Birmingham, aka Digby Jones, the former director general of the CBI, said that in his year in the government as a so-called GOAT (a member of the Government Of All The Talents) he found the civil service to be 'honest, stuffed full of decent people who work hard'.
2011, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee, Bernard Jenkin, Smaller Government: Report, Together with Formal Minutes
One of the problems with the GOATs was that the parliamentary and political role was undersold to them.
Usage notes
Referring to something or someone as the GOAT can indicate support or appreciation while not necessarily being literal; for example, "my GOAT" can refer to a strong preference without the context of competition and ranking. Online, "my GOAT" in particular is also used as a casual, complimentary term of address. Compare en my man.
Derived terms
en G.O.A.T.ED goated throat goat
Related terms
en greatest of all time BOAT of all time all-time WOAT
Anagrams
en agot Gøta TOGA Toga atgo toga
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