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Joe the Gooses

Joe the Gooses is the plural of Joe the Goose.

Meaning of Joe the Goose

Noun

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
  2. A handball which leads to such a goal.

Noun capitalized: Joe the gooses

Joe the gooses

  1. (plural) plural of Joe the goose

Questions about Joe the Gooses

What is Joe the Gooses the plural of?
Joe the Gooses is the plural of Joe the Goose.
What part of speech is Joe the Gooses?
Joe the Gooses is a noun.

Words near Joe the Gooses in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Joe the Gooses (page history and authors); Joe the gooses (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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