Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

moving the goal posts

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English

Syllables
mov-ing the -goal -posts
IPA
30
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of move the goal posts

Questions

What does moving the goal posts mean?
present participle and gerund of move the goal posts

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