Complete Definition of "goalpost"

Image:102007-USC-ND-fdtd.jpg|thumb|A goalpost in American football
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Noun
en-noun|sg=goalpost

  1. sports In American football, the tall Y-shaped upright, now usually of fiberglass, at either end of the playing field, through which a football must go in order to score a field goal. Originally, they were H-shaped, with two wooden posts on either side.
  2. sports One of the two side poles of the goal.

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