Goat
September 10, 2007
goat/ got / -- n.1. short for the Billy Goat Tavern, a bar on Lower Michigan Avenue once popular with newspaper staffers, now a tourist destination. "I'll meet you at the Goat."; 2. a baseball player who blows a big game. "Hack Wilson hit 58 home runs but ended up a goat."; 3. a hardy, ruminant mammal.