goal-suck
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.33 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[p 77] But the essential rules were the same everywhere: no goal-sucking, no raising, unless whoever’s younger brother was stuck in goal was also foolish enough to wear shin-pads, no long shots, no throwing your stick to stop a breakaway. [p 88] Forwards lurked near their opponents’ line and called for the puck by banging their sticks on the ice until someone hollered goal-sucking. [p 238] Old rules came back. Anderson threw his stick along the ice at a breaking-away Semenko—how graceful he looked from this perspective!—and Semenko was awarded an automatic goal. Driscoll was called for goal-sucking."
- "[p 63] goal-sucking [i.e., waiting near the opponent’s goal for a long pass and ensuing scoring opportunity] [p 64] In shinny, everyone wins. Though rules are scaled back, the game is not loosened beyond all form, and the driving competitive element remains. [. . .] ‘Goal-sucking’ is banned because there are neither offsides nor referees to judge them."
- "For a second Charlie was tempted to goal suck and look for the stretch pass."
- "Wound up with nothing to show for his night except a well-deserved -1 in the dying seconds when he was goal-sucking out at the blueline for an empty netter while his man slipped into the slot to narrow the lead to one."
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Usage
Inflected Forms
goal-sucks (present, singular)
goal-sucking (participle, present)
goal-sucked (participle, past)
goal-sucked (past)