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billy goat

American  

noun

billy goats plural
  1. a male goat.

  2. Informal. goat.


billy goat British  

noun

  1. a male goat Compare nanny goat

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Meanwhile, Sarabia scoops up a baby billy goat and cradles him in his arms.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2023

The Cubs would go on to end a 108-year championship drought — and finally broke what some believed was a curse brought on by a Chicago tavern owner’s pet billy goat.

From Seattle Times Sep. 30, 2022

Travel restrictions made an accidental sleeper of the Torlonia family’s Greek and Roman sculptures: dozens of portrait busts, a hirsute billy goat reclining like a love god, a shattered Hercules recomposed from a hundred shards.

From New York Times Dec. 8, 2021

Their sheep, on the other hand, are a little creepy and otherworldly, in the manner of the billy goat Black Phillip from Robert Eggers’s similarly moody and supernatural “The Witch.”

From Washington Post Oct. 6, 2021

He’s searching my face with his kind billy goat eyes.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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