goalkeep

English

Etymology

From goal +‎ keep.

Noun

goalkeep (plural goalkeeps)

  1. (sports, colloquial) A goalkeeper or goaltender.

Verb

goalkeep (third-person singular simple present goalkeeps, present participle goalkeeping, simple past and past participle goalkept)

  1. (sports, intransitive) To goaltend.
    • 2011, Eilidh Nisbet, Giddy Old School: The Diary of a Swot 1948-1951, page 268:
      By rights I ought to have been lolling in bed this morning, but Nancy was ill and I had to goalkeep for the Second.
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