goaltend
verbEtymology From goal + tend.
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Ball games, Basketball, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports To engage in goaltending, interference with the ball on its downward path to the basket
- Amazingly, of Fly's first eight shots two are blocked, three go in, and three are goaltended.2004, Rick Teland, Heaven is a Playground, →ISBN, page 108:
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Hobbies, Ice hockey, Lifestyle, Skating, Sports To act as a goaltender, to tend goal, to mind the nets.
- Related terms
- goaltender, goaltending, tend goal