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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

Neither Steve Bartman nor any billy goat rode that bus or occupied the clubhouse.

From Washington Post Oct. 27, 2020

It’s basically Watergate, “but if Nixon had been kicked in the head by a billy goat, and if that billy goat was the White House chief of staff”, he said on Last Week Tonight.

From The Guardian Apr. 22, 2019

Then he went outside, to pens where the animals were kept, and he came back into the wedding feast leading a large, extremely irritated billy goat.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman

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