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goat
noun- a person responsible for a failure or loss, especially a player in an atheltic contest US, 1894
A short form of “scapegoat”. - It was in the 1963 Series that he lost a throw from third base in the shirts of the crowd and was the goat of the game. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 313, 1970
- in horse racing, a poor-performing racehorse AUSTRALIA, 1941
- “Best hoop in the country, the old Darb.” “I seen ‘im ride goats. Cooky too.” “Cooky don’t take on too many goats. Sharp as a tack, Cooky.’’ — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 72, 1957
- — Robert Saunders Dowst and Jay Craig, Playing the Races: A Guide to the American Tracks, p. 163, 1960
- a fool UK, 1879
Often, and originally, in the phrase “act the goat”. - She could have poisoned me. What a bloody ratbag – a fully qualified goat. — John Wynnum, Jiggin’ in the Riggin’, p. 116, 1965
- — Louis S. Leland, A Personal Kiwi-Yankee Dictionary, p. 7, 1984
- in motor racing, a Dodge car US
- The term derives from the ram once used as a trade mark by Dodge. — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 55, 1965
- in hot rodding, an old car US
- — Hot Rod Magazine, p. 13, November 1948: “Racing jargon”
- an engine used in a railway yard US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 263, 1946
- a goatee US, 1956
- — Judi Sanders, Da Bomb!, p. 13, 1997
▶ get your goat
to succeed in making someone lose their temper US, 1904- Got his goat properly, I can tell you, way I offered him out on the spot. — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 200, 1947
- [H]e went with a woman once who kept acting like she couldn’t remember his name right and calling him Hooligan just to get his goat. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 44, 1962
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