goated

Meaning

1. Extremely skilled or excellent, at the level of a GOAT.
2. Used broadly for anything impressive, not just people.

“That last-second save was goated.”

Where it came from

Goated is an adjective form of GOAT, built the way slang turns nouns into descriptors. It spread through gaming and Twitch chat in the late 2010s and early 2020s as a quicker way to say something is the best without spelling out the acronym.