1. a farm animal with horns and a beard, kept for its milk and meat
2. a person who is blamed for a failure or mistake
Usage: informal

Examples

• The farmer keeps goats for their milk.
• Mountain goats can climb steep rocky cliffs.
• She milks the goats every morning.
• The goat ate all the flowers in the garden.
• He became the goat when the team lost the championship.
• Don’t make me the goat for this project’s failure.