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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shifting the goalposts

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.57 in modern English

Syllables
shift-ing the -goal-posts
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of shift the goalposts

Questions

What does shifting the goalposts mean?
present participle and gerund of shift the goalposts

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