own goal
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3.7
- noun
- /oʊn ɡoʊl/
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gol en propia puerta
- Goals by Josh Wolff, Nelson Pizarro, and an own goal that apparently was set up by Pizarro.
Examples
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In soccer parlance, Prime Minister David Cameron's center forward has scored a spectacular own goal.
Blog text (2) -
You just scored an own goal!
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Right into her team's own goal.
Fiction book (2001) -
It's all beginning to look like a massive own goal.
Blog text (1) -
I mean, which player has the most own goals in Premier League history?
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Write one thousand times, 'I'll never score an own goal again.'
Blog text (30) -
Each team got an own goal, and a 1-1 score will be carried into the second leg in Jersey on Wednesday night.
Blog text (1) -
In the past two meetings, Colorado has beaten the Earthquakes on a terrible own goal mistake by goalkeeper Jon Busch off an Omar Cummings cross, and a stunning strike by Kosuke Kimura in the Eastern Conference finals last.
Blog text (16) -
During the match, the player accidentally scored an own goal, giving the opposing team a point.
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In the final minutes of the game, the defender's mistake led to an unexpected own goal that cost his team the win.
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The constituents 'own' (belonging to) + 'goal' (a score) give a clear compositional sense related to possession of a goal, so a learner can guess this is a goal involving one’s own team. However, the conventionalized sports meaning — an inadvertent score against one’s own side — is a specific usage that may not be fully predictable without exposure, even though many languages use a similar construction (e.g., autogol/Eigentor), which helps recognition.
Etymology
The noun own goal comes from football, where a player accidentally kicks the ball into their own net and gives the other team a goal. So, own goal now means 'a mistake that helps the other team'.