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GOAT en · NOUN

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.

Meanings

1. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, slang) Acronym of greatest of all time.
   alt of greatest of all time
   • Messi is the GOAT of football.
   • Still wicked as Aleister Crowley, niggas know me well For heaven's sake, I'm the GOAT, you haters can go to hell 2016, “Really Doe”, in Atrocity Exhibition, performed by Danny Brown ft. Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, and Earl Sweatshirt, via Spotify:
2. (UK, informal) A member of the "government of all the talents" proposed by British prime minister Gordon Brown.
   • 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'. 2010, Philip Johnston, Bad Laws:
   • The best talents; of course he was a GOAT. 2009, Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Public Administration Select Committee, Good government: eighth report of session 2008-09, volume 2
   • 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.

Forms

Deriveds

throat goat · G.O.A.T.ED · goated

Relateds

of all time (greatest of all time) · WOAT (greatest of all time) · BOAT (greatest of all time) · all-time (greatest of all time)

wikipedia: GOAT (sports culture)