goalkeep

English

Noun

goalkeep (plural goalkeeps)

1. (sports, colloquial) A goalkeeper or goaltender.

Verb

goalkeep (third-person singular simple present goalkeeps, present participle goalkeeping, simple past and past participle goalkept)

1. (sports) To goaltend.
   • 2011, Eilidh Nisbet, Giddy Old School: The Diary of a Swot 1948-1951, page 268:

     By rights I ought to have been lolling in bed this morning, but Nancy was ill and I had to goalkeep for the Second.