goat horns

Billy's curved weapons

Goat horns are the permanent bony projections on a goat's head, curved backward and sometimes spiraling.

Unlike antlers, they're never shed.

The phrase extends to any horn-shaped objects resembling them, and in gesture, forming goat horns with the fingers—index and pinky extended—signals rock music enthusiasm or, in some cultures, a ward against evil.

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curled · spiral · headbutt · billy · keratin · ibex · mountain · curved · pointed · faun · skull · trophy · butt · charge · shofar · Pan · demonic · twisted

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Opposites
horn type/structure

goat hornsantlers

Branching cervid headgear

deer antlers · elk antlers · moose antlers · tusks · rhinoceros horn

presence/absence

goat hornshornless

Lacking bony head growths

polled · dehorned

Family

goat, horn, goats, goatee, horns, horned, hornless, horny, hornlike

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G