Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In foot-ball and lacrosse, a player whose special duty it is to prevent the ball from being thrown or kicked through the goal.
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Examples
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Today with another free gift, these time the goal-keeper shirt template only with the Nike label, used for the team such Barcelona, Inter, ManUtd, Juventus, Arsenal and other Nike sponsor.
Nike Goalkeeper free template shirts Azmie aka switch image 2009
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They attempted to make a goal-keeper of him in a football game between two teams of pain-driven and pain-bitten mongrels.
CHAPTER XXVI 2010
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Today with another free gift, these time the goal-keeper shirt template only with the Nike label, used for the team such Barcelona, Inter, ManUtd, Juventus, Arsenal and other Nike sponsor.
Archive 2009-03-01 Azmie aka switch image 2009
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Whether you are the goal-keeper, striker, or a mid-fielder, you are part of the balance.
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Whether you are the goal-keeper, striker, or a mid-fielder, you are part of the balance.
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"We will continue on our way, dry as a bone," CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke announced cryptically, "I could say something now but won't," said goal-keeper Roman Weidenfeller.
Eintracht Frankfurt's cold-blooded killer makes light work of latest prey Raphael Honigstein 2010
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It's that, given an open goal, the Conservatives throw their hands up in horror and demand that play stops until a goal-keeper is found: they never go for the jugular against Labour or, when appropriate, the BBC.
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Feel the desperation as the robotic goal-keeper reacts a bit too slowly, dropping his head to the right and making a belated, ill-fated lunge!
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Hall sent the knife sliding along the table to Wadgers, who acted as goal-keeper for the offensive, so to speak, and then stepped forward as Jaffers and the stranger swayed and staggered towards him, clutching and hitting in.
The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006
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According to some, Arnie had described how, when serving in France in the First World War, he had gained such a reputation as a football goal-keeper that finally a lot of famous dead-shot players were lined up to take penalty kicks against him.
Every living thing Herriot, James 1992
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