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Origin: Latin suffix -al

Own goal has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

(soccer) a goal that results when a player inadvertently knocks the ball into the goal he is defending

"the own goal cost them the game"

2

A goal that results from a player putting the ball or puck into the goal of his or her own team; the resulting goal being scored for the opposition.

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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
goal
Rhyming Words
boal coal foal goal toal shoal skoal recoal seacoal in goal no goal subgoal nongoal sea coal gas coal day coal charcoal non goal antigoal entozoal
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