In case the rhinestone silhouette of a goat on the sleeve of her gymnastics uniform wasn’t a dead giveaway, Simone Biles is a GOAT blueprint. For inspo, here’s a look at some important GOATs in their respective fields right now. All you have to do is find the person who is the best at what they do and anoint them the prestigious title.

Tom Brady alone was instrumental in adding GOAT to the dictionary in 2018.īut the term itself can be applied outside of sports, too. It’s generally used in the sports world, a title given to athletes who have boasted the best stats and greatest successes in the history of their sport: LeBron James, Lionel Messi, and Serena Williams, to name a few big, indisputable ones. Helpful if you’re a farm animal enthusiast, but not so much in this context, meaning GOAT (or G.O.A.T), as in “Greatest of All Time.” The acronym GOAT has its origin in the boxer Muhammad Ali (simply known as “The Greatest”), and LL Cool J's 2000 album G.O.A.T (Greatest of All Time) helped popularize the term.īy definition, the meaning of GOAT should only be used to denote those who truly are the greatest of all time - not just someone who is kind of great or approaching greatness.

If you Google “examples of GOATs,” you’ll be greeted with an array of goat breeds - Anglo-Nubian goat, Nigerian dwarf goat, American pygmy. Today on the agenda of words you’ve likely seen and heard, but if you don’t know at this point, are too embarrassed to ask about: GOAT. In the age of ever-changing vocabularies and new slang being generated with every viral Twitter meme, pop song, and TikTok trend, it can be challenging (but important!) to keep up with everything people on the internet are saying, especially if navigating the latest - and in many cases fleeting - digital culture vernacular isn’t your forte.

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