A fee or tax paid for the privilege of using a goal in a game or sport, or historically, a prison fee.
Compound of 'goal' (a prison, from Old English origin, or the endpoint in sport) and the '-age' suffix meaning a tax, toll, or charge. 'Gaol' (British spelling of jail) shares etymological roots.
The suffix '-age' appearing in 'goalage' is the same one in 'baggage,' 'storage,' and 'passage'—it's one of English's most productive suffixes for turning nouns into abstract concepts of fees, collections, or conditions.
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