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moving the goalposts

The act of redefining the conditions for victory or completion of a task, either when the original conditions for achieving them were met or whilst the person or group is busy working to achieve the current conditions, in order to prevent them from succeeding. Usually done with malice by a superior or peer looking to exclude or remove people from a group by portraying them as incompetent of not completing the task they keep altering.
When Jake was close to finishing his training, his supervisor who had always hated him started moving the goalposts by claiming that Jake needed four references of work experience instead of two in order to graduate, a condition that nobody else had to meet and with only one day left for the deadline. Jake didn't pass.

Goalpost Shifter 

The worst type of Nintendo bootlicker who defends their multi-million dollar company when :
1. There's a criticism of Nintendo when they shut down fan stuff borrowing their IPs.
2. There's a criticism from fanboys of rival consoles.
3. They lose an argument, some of them start mocking their colloquist at this point.
Here we go there's a Goalpost Shifter under a Twitter post criticising Nintendo shutting down Youtubers who upload their OSTs.
Goalpost Shifter by Shiine-1 February 2, 2022
1. a almost scored goal in a sport
2. a fish cookie
1. I was playing the finals, i took the last kick of the ball. GOOOOOOOLmost. dang it i missed

2. my mom packed me golmosts for lunch today
golmost by gizzyassucker May 24, 2009

gammon goalposts 

I kicked my purple football straight between her gammon goal posts!

Golfposting 

Golfposting is a term coined by users of Code Golf Stack Exchange, meaning incomprehensible or strange jokes about code golf, esoteric programming languages, and programming in general.
"two can play at the golfposting game my friend ;p "
Golfposting by ¯\_(ಠ_ಠ)_/¯ December 19, 2021

moving the goalposts

A fancy way of saying sabotage of what somebody is trying to get done, fucking with someone's life.
The dork would always start moving the goalposts whenever she started to get eaten alive at the game she created.
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Person 2:......
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square grouper

Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.
"Base we've got some square groupers floating outside of Miami harbor."
square grouper by slipsheet November 6, 2004
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"Yeah, she's kind of annoying. All she ever talks about it ballet."

"Wow, what a Bunhead."

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"I can't, I have dance."
"You're such a Bunhead."

"Yeah... I know."
Bunhead by Jen00 October 24, 2014
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