goalpost

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun one of a pair of posts (usually joined by a crossbar) that are set up as a goal at each end of a playing field

From goal + post.

That was why the fellows seemed to him smaller and farther away and the goalposts so thin and far and the soft grey sky so high up. — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce

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