Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

open goal

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.92 in modern English

Syllables: open -goal
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An undefended goal.

noun

An opportunity that is readily available.

Example Sentences

"Labour missed an “open goal” to beat Theresa May and should not pretend it achieved a famous victory, a former shadow chancellor has said."
"Reeves, a former Bank of England economist, was presented with an open goal thanks to Kwasi Kwarteng’s badly received mini-budget and she was determined not miss it."
"But with Germany’s Olaf Scholz and France’s Emmanuel Macron facing red cards at home,[…] Giorgia Meloni – post-fascist poster girl turned star centre-forward of the new right – is shooting at an open goal."

Inflected Forms

open goals (plural)

Questions

What does open goal mean?: An undefended goal.

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