Definitions for goalkeeper

goalkeeper goal·keep·er

Spelling: [gohl-kee-per]
IPA: /ˈgoʊlˌki pər/

Goalkeeper is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 376 anagrams from letters in goalkeeper (aeeegklopr).

Definitions for goalkeeper

noun

  1. (in ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.) a player whose chief duty is to prevent the ball or puck from crossing or entering the goal.

Origin of goalkeeper

First recorded in 1650-60; goal + keeper

Examples for goalkeeper

Now, the goalkeeper is out with a memoir about his life until that point: The Keeper: A Life of Saving Goals and Achieving Them.

The opponents' goalkeeper shall not advance beyond his goal line.

By doing so he gives the goalkeeper no possible chance of knowing where it is going.

In a flash he deflects the shot, with the speed of instinct, right past the goalkeeper.

United States goalkeeper Tim Howard on why soccer struggles in America and how he essentially chose his career over his wife.

It is also important to know when to pass back to the goalkeeper, and to do so correctly.

If the half-back makes a mistake it can be rectified by the man behind him, but if the goalkeeper makes a blunder it is fatal.

The best player was Manuel Neuer, Germany’s goalkeeper, but ‘keepers are seldom lauded in this way.

But Silva, hapless Silva, got his merely for tangling with the Colombian goalkeeper in a clumsy melee of limbs.

I have often seen a goal scored simply through a poor return by the goalkeeper.

Word Value for goalkeeper
Scrable

17

Words with friends

20

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