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Own goal   /oʊn goʊl/   Listen
Own goal

noun
1.
(soccer) a goal that results when a player inadvertently knocks the ball into the goal he is defending.





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"Own goal" Quotes from Famous Books



... ball, and through the holes that Boyd and Ellis made for him in the enemy's line he plunged like a locomotive. There was no stopping them, and the game became a massacre. They simply stood the scrubs "on their heads." Their own goal line was not even threatened, let alone crossed. Touchdown followed touchdown, until when the whistle blew, the 'Varsity had rolled up a score of 54 to 0 and their humiliation had been ...
— Bert Wilson on the Gridiron • J. W. Duffield


Words linked to "Own goal" :   soccer, association football, goal


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