goalpost

See also: goal post

English
A goalpost in American football

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goal +‎ post.

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goalpost (plural goalposts)

  1. (sports) One of the two vertical side poles of a goal.
  2. (sports, 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 for a field goal to be scored. (They were originally H-shaped, with one wooden post on either side.)
  3. A rule or target that is "moved" (changed) unfairly; see move the goalposts.
    • 2012, Sarah L. Holloway, ‎Mark Jayne, ‎Gill Valentine, Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness: (Dis)Orderly Spaces (page 55)
      […] whatever you eat, how much you drink, you know the goalposts keep moving all the time, and it's difficult to be sure that, but I don't think it's harmful, not the amount I drink.

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