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own goal

n

1. (General Sporting Terms) Soccer a goal scored by a player accidentally playing the ball into his own team's net Abbreviation o.g

2. Informal any action that results in disadvantage to the person who took it or to a party, group, etc. with which that person is associated

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

own goal - (soccer) a goal that results when a player inadvertently knocks the ball into the goal he is defending; "the own goal cost them the game" goal - a successful attempt at scoring; "the winning goal came with less than a minute left to play" association football, soccer - a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal

Translations

own goal

n (lit, fig) → Eigentor nt; to score an own goal (lit, fig) → ein Eigentor schießen

own goal n (Sport) (fig) → autogol m inv, autorete f