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Joe the Goose

Joe the Goose noun: a (usually easy) goal scored by a player who has received a handball in the goalsquare and is without an opponent close to them.

Noun (1)

Joe the Goose (plural Joe the Gooses)

  1. A (usually easy) goal scored by a player who has received a handball in the goalsquare and is without an opponent close to them.
    • "His first goal was a ‘‘Joe the Goose’’ over the top, but Brown followed it up with another mark and conversion barely a minute later."2014 September 7, Rohan Connolly, “North Melbourne storms home to defeat the Essendon Bombers in their elimination final”, in The Examiner, retrieved 16 Aug 2018
    • "As for Darcy Moore, well he kicked two goals today – one of them a classic “Joe the Goose”, but still – and with no senior key forward to partner with it’s no surprise he gets kept out of the contest at times."2017 April 25, Josh Elliott, “Five more quick takes from AFL Round 5”, in The Roar, retrieved 19 Aug 2018
  2. A handball which leads to such a goal.

Noun (2) capitalized: Joe the goose

Joe the goose (plural Joe the gooses)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Joe the Goose.

Forms of Joe the Goose

pluralJoe the Gooses
alternative formJoe the goose
alternative formJoe-the-Goose
alternative formJoe-the-goose
pluralJoe the gooses

Questions about Joe the Goose

What does Joe the Goose mean?
Joe the Goose means a (usually easy) goal scored by a player who has received a handball in the goalsquare and is without an opponent close to them.
What part of speech is Joe the Goose?
Joe the Goose is a noun.
What is the plural of Joe the Goose?
The plural of Joe the Goose is Joe the Gooses.

Words near Joe the Goose in the dictionary

  1. Joe Shmoe
  2. Joe Six-Pack
  3. Joe Sixpack
  4. Joe Soap
  5. Joe Strummer
  6. Joe the Goose
  7. Joe the Gooses
  8. Joe Who
  9. Joe's
  10. Joe's Diner
  11. joe-job

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Joe the Goose (page history and authors); Joe the goose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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