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goalie

nounverbattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɡəʊl.i//
  • United States//ˈɡoʊli//

A goalkeeper or goaltender.

noun

  1. 1

    A goalkeeper or goaltender.

Etymology

Clipping of goalkeeper or goaltender + -ie.

verb

  1. 1

    To act as a goalie, to tend the goals, to mind the net.

Forms

plural
goalies
past tense
goalied
past participle
goalied
present participle
goalieing
third person singular
goalies
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).