"own goal" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈoʊn.ɡoʊl/ Forms: own goals [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} own goal (plural own goals)
  1. (sports) A goal that results from a player putting the ball or puck into the goal of their own team; the resulting goal being scored for the opposition. Categories (topical): Sports Synonyms: self goal, autogoal, own-goal Related terms: dig one's own grave, self-inflicted, self-own, shoot oneself in the foot Translations (goal scored by player against their own team): autogol (Albanian), هدف ذاتي (hadaf dhāty) [masculine] (Arabic), هدف عكسي (hadaf 3aksiy) [masculine] (Arabic), هدف في مرماه (hadaf fi marmāh) [masculine] (Arabic), embal (Breton), автого́л (avtogól) [masculine] (Bulgarian), autogol [masculine] (Catalan), 烏龍球 (Chinese Mandarin), 乌龙球 (wūlóngqiú) (Chinese Mandarin), vlastní gól [masculine] (Czech), vlastní branka [feminine] (Czech), vlastňák [colloquial, masculine] (Czech), selvmål [neuter] (Danish), eigen doelpunt [neuter] (Dutch), oma maali (Finnish), but contre son camp [masculine] (French), autogol (Galician), Eigentor [neuter] (German), öngól (Hungarian), sjálfsmark [neuter] (Icelandic), gol bunuh diri (Indonesian), autorete [feminine] (Italian), autogoal [masculine] (Italian), オウンゴール (oun gōru) (Japanese), 自殺点 (jisatsuten) (alt: じさつてん) (Japanese), 자책골 (jachaekgol) (Korean), 자살골 (jasalgol) (Korean), автогол (avtogol) [masculine] (Macedonian), gol sendiri (Malay), selvmål [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), sjølvmål [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), gol samobójczy [masculine] (Polish), samobój [masculine] (Polish), bramka samobójcza [feminine] (Polish), autogolo [masculine] (Portuguese), gol contra [masculine] (Portuguese), autogol [neuter] (Romanian), гол в свои́ воро́та (gol v svoí voróta) [masculine] (Russian), автого́л (avtogól) [masculine] (Russian), autogol (Spanish), gol en contra [masculine] (Spanish), gol en propia meta [masculine] (Spanish), gol en propia puerta [masculine] (Spanish), självmål [neuter] (Swedish), kendi kalesine gol (Turkish), bàn thắng phản lưới nhà (Vietnamese)
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  2. (figuratively) A blunder that damages one’s own prospects. Tags: figuratively Translations (blunder that damages one's own prospects): selvmål [neuter] (Danish), oma maali (Finnish), Eigentor [neuter] (German), selvmål [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), samobój [masculine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-own_goal-en-noun-0xuL1Zje Disambiguation of "blunder that damages one's own prospects": 8 92

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          "word": "kendi kalesine gol"
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          "ref": "2008, Henry McDonald, Gunsmoke and mirrors: how Sinn Féin dressed up defeat as victory:",
          "text": "In its penultimate year, for example, starting from when the Provos blew up Canary Wharf in February 1996, the IRA suffered its last 'own goal' when Wexford-born Ed O'Brien blew himself up on a London bus whilst transporting a bomb.",
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          "ref": "2011 June 22, Fionola Meredith, “Belfast riots are an own goal”, in The Guardian:",
          "text": "No doubt the buzz of army helicopters will sound again in the skies over Belfast tonight, as loyalists continue to score this series of bloody own goals.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "2017 June 9, Sotirios Zartaloudis, “Theresa May wins election, but ends up the biggest loser”, in The Globe and Mail:",
          "text": "These elections mark a personal humiliation for incumbent Ms. May, who ran a very personalized campaign as a “strong and stable” leader asking British voters to give her a clear mandate to negotiate Brexit. Ms. May scored an unforced own goal by reducing her party’s parliamentary seats and absolute majority.",
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        "(figuratively) A blunder that damages one’s own prospects."
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            "neuter"
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        },
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          "sense": "blunder that damages one's own prospects",
          "word": "oma maali"
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          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Eigentor"
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            "neuter"
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          "_dis1": "8 92",
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      "ipa": "/ˈoʊn.ɡoʊl/"
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      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "word": "烏龍球"
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      "word": "乌龙球"
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      "word": "selvmål"
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      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
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      "word": "eigen doelpunt"
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      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "word": "oma maali"
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      "word": "öngól"
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      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "word": "gol bunuh diri"
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      "word": "オウンゴール"
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      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "word": "自殺点"
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      "word": "자책골"
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      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
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      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
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      "word": "sjølvmål"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
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      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
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      "word": "gol samobójczy"
    },
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      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
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      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
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      "word": "bramka samobójcza"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "autogolo"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "gol contra"
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      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "autogol"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gol v svoí voróta",
      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "гол в свои́ воро́та"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "avtogól",
      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "автого́л"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "word": "autogol"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "gol en contra"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "gol en propia meta"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
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      "word": "gol en propia puerta"
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      "code": "sv",
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      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "självmål"
    },
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      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "word": "kendi kalesine gol"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "goal scored by player against their own team",
      "word": "bàn thắng phản lưới nhà"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "blunder that damages one's own prospects",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "selvmål"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "blunder that damages one's own prospects",
      "word": "oma maali"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "blunder that damages one's own prospects",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "Eigentor"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "blunder that damages one's own prospects",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
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      "word": "selvmål"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "blunder that damages one's own prospects",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "samobój"
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  "wikipedia": [
    "own goal"
  ],
  "word": "own goal"
}

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