Speakur

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moving the goalposts

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 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 goalposts.

Questions

What does moving the goalposts mean?
present participle and gerund of move the goalposts.

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