'Greatest of all time' — from a boxer's company name to a rapper's album to the argument that runs every sports comment section, and the goat emoji that settles it. The record's entry for the superlative that became an animal.
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The definition implies everyone used GOAT the same way. They did not. There were at least two camps by the second month, and they did not like each other.
I remember when GOAT was still a niche thing — 1992 — and you could use it without a footnote. The footnote arrived about six weeks later and never left.
The record has 'goated' as the adjective. This is the noun, and the record notes the goat emoji is now used under any excellent thing, including a photograph of a good sandwich.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
