GOAT

nouncommon in dialogue

A member of the "government of all the talents" proposed by British prime minister Gordon Brown.

noun

1
informalA member of the "government of all the talents" proposed by British prime minister Gordon Brown.
The best talents; of course he was a GOAT.
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.
2
Variant of greatest of all timeslangAcronym of greatest of all time.
Messi is the GOAT of football.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gʰer-der. Proto-Germanic *grautaz Proto-West Germanic *graut Old English grēat Middle English grete English great Proto-Indo-European *-yōs Proto-Indo-European *-tHós Proto-Indo-European *-istos Proto-Germanic *-istaz Proto-West Germanic *-ist Old English -est Middle English -est English -est English greatest Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep Proto-Indo-European *-o Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó Proto-Germanic *ab Proto-West Germanic *ab Old English æf Old English of Middle English of English of Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Indo-European *h₂elnós Proto-Germanic *allaz Proto-West Germanic *all Old English eall Middle English all English all Proto-Indo-European *deh₂- Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ Proto-Indo-European *dh₂i-mon- Proto-Germanic *tīmô Proto-West Germanic *tīmō Old English tīma Middle English tyme English time English GOAT Abbreviation.

Forms

plural: GOATs

goals · Extremely admirable; worthy of being set as a goal and…goat · Any ruminant of the genus Capra.Goat · The constellation and zodiacal sign Capricornus.

GOAT · A member of the "government of all the talents" proposed by British prime minister Gordon Brown.

gob · A lump of soft or sticky material.gobble · To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used…Gobble · A surname.

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