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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

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

Instead, it sounded like the voice of a troll who was standing under a bridge hoping that an unsuspecting billy goat would walk by.

From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo

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