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football
[ foot-bawl ]
noun
- a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion ( def 13 ), field goal ( def 1 ), safety ( def 6 ), touchdown.
- the ball used in this game, an inflated oval with a bladder contained in a casing usually made of leather.
- Chiefly British. Rugby ( def 1 ).
- Chiefly British. soccer.
- something sold at a reduced or special price.
- any person or thing treated roughly or tossed about:
They're making a political football of this issue.
- (initial capital letter) U.S. Government Slang. a briefcase containing the codes and options the president would use to launch a nuclear attack, carried by a military aide and kept available to the president at all times.
verb (used with object)
- Informal. to offer for sale at a reduced or special price.
football
/ ˈfʊtˌbɔːl /
noun
- any of various games played with a round or oval ball and usually based on two teams competing to kick, head, carry, or otherwise propel the ball into each other's goal, territory, etc See association football rugby Australian Rules American football Gaelic football
- ( as modifier )
a football ground
a football supporter
- the ball used in any of these games or their variants
- a problem, issue, etc, that is continually passed from one group or person to another and treated as a pretext for argument instead of being resolved
he accused the government of using the strike as a political football
Derived Forms
- ˈfootˌballer, noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
As the basketball season for other Division I colleges staggers toward its conclusion and lower-division schools begin spring football campaigns, some college coaches and players fear the Ivy League will skip spring sports entirely.
It’s a level of success that just doesn’t seem replicable, however much he owes to the fact that GM Jason Licht and head coach Bruce Arians built one of the most complete teams in football.
He was far more concerned with football, his no-distraction reputation going back to his first head coaching stint in Cleveland.
So if we can get our heads around that like we’ve done in football, football will fix itself.
They took away the sidelines, and they did a good job of rallying to the football and making tackles.
The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.
The Dallas Cowboys sell out their state-of-the art football stadium.
His accuser was smeared and demeaned, and a star football player was allowed to keep on playing.
Army B-squad players who fail to make it onto the varsity team after a year or two usually quit football.
I watch football, basketball, and hockey on TV and sometimes “The Bass Pros” on Outdoor Channel.
In his football days the "fighting face" of the Indian star had often appeared on sporting pages.
Under the heat of the exercise during the football game the victim's body generated the gas which he inhaled.
For weeks before it the children practiced racing, and trained themselves in jumping, football, quoiting and such sports.
Football would, be better, if it had been the right time of the year, and we had grass to play on; now it might create suspicion.
Football shall be played with a light india-rubber globe, and "pushing" shall be strictly forbidden.
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