1292: Goals as an Adjective (LITW 5)

Slang has turned the noun 'goals' into an adjective. If you've missed this in the last couple of years, people have been using the word 'goals' in structures only fit for adjectives. In the photo below "her British accent is goals af", 'goals' is a predicate adjective (i.e. it follows the linking verb 'to be'. Notably, while someone can say 'her...accent is goals' or theoretically 'her accent is pretty', there is not the option to say the 'goals accent' in the same way as 'the pretty accent', at least for the time being. Moreover though, it precedes 'af' [as fuck] which is only possible for descriptors. It is also notable that while 'goals' is plural when a noun, as an adjective it has no grammatical number. This is the fourth segment on Word Facts entitled Linguistics in the Wild (LITW), and you can see the rest here.