football

ˈfʊtbɔːl

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#1·14h ago

A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.

Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football.

Origin: From , footbal, equivalent to , because the ball was primarily manipulated with the feet in early versions of the game (though some modern varieties involve more handling than kicking). The name for the briefcase is a play on “dropkick”, the code name of an early version of the nuclear war plan. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·14h ago

(countable) The ball used in any game called "football".

The player kicked the football.

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#3·14h ago

(UK, Africa, Caribbean, South Asia, uncountable) Association football, also called soccer: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball.

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