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football
  1. (general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
  2. (Britain, uncountable) Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.
  3. (US, uncountable) American football: a game in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
  4. (Canada, uncountable) Canadian football: a game played on a wide field in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
  5. Australian rules football.
  6. (Ireland, uncountable) Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.
  7. (Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable) rugby league.
  8. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand) rugby union
  9. (countable) The ball used in any game called "football".
  10. (uncountable) Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
  11. (figuratively, countable) An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
  12. (slang, US, countable) The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.
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  14. Examples:
    1. “Junior players who have not sufficiently recovered from their injury should not be enticed by family members or the team coach to return to play football.”
      “The punter's job is to kick the football to the other team if the offense stalls and doesn't pick up enough yardage for a first down.”
      “Shall the basis of railway mail pay be made a political football?”
footballization
  1. The process of increasing the popularity of football (soccer) in a region.
  2. The influence of football on real-life matters such as politics, economics and the media.
  3. The tendency to turn issues into "political footballs".
footballese
  1. The jargon associated with the sport of football.
footballer
  1. One who plays soccer, that is, football.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Now more famous as a broadcaster in his native Ireland, Dunphy began his professional life as a journeyman footballer.”
      “Gashes and knocks that would put a professional footballer out of action for weeks tend to be shrugged off.”
      “Top actors or actresses are making millions of pounds for each film, much more than a footballer earns.”
footballisation
  1. Alternative form of footballization
footballist
  1. (dated) A football player.
footballists
  1. plural of footballist
footballers
  1. plural of footballer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In the attempt to end up as winners, footballers will resort to a number of unsportsmanlike practices during matches.”
      “The South Americans are also sending over their footballers and the Spaniards are welcoming them with open arms.”
      “Not only did the footballers perform abjectly, but their attitude was all wrong.”
footballs
  1. plural of football
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It would help considerably if parents ensure that the owners name appears somewhere on all items of clothing, not forgetting footballs.”
      “We used to provide footballs for the boys and skipping ropes for the girls.”
      “But, when you are carrying one of the footballs or the soccer ball, you can be tackled.”
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