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See also:Football,foot-ball,andfoot ball

English

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Association football
American football
A football used for association football
A football used for American football
Australian rules football.

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishfotbal,footbal, equivalent tofoot +‎ball, which may refer to the act of kicking a ball with the feet or to the fact the game was played on foot (as opposed to onhorseback or with players in fixed positions). The name for the briefcase is a play on “dropkick”, the code name of an early version of the nuclear war plan.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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football (countable anduncountable,pluralfootballs)

  1. A sport playedon foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into agoal orzone defended by the other team.
    Roman and medievalfootball matches were more violent than any modern type offootball.
  2. (UK, Africa, Caribbean, South Asia, uncountable)Association football, also calledsoccer: agame in which twoteams each contend to get aroundball into the other team'sgoal primarily bykicking the ball.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:football
    Each team scored three goals when they playedfootball.
  3. (US, uncountable)American football: agame played on a field 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get anovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:football
    Each team scored two touchdowns when they playedfootball.
  4. (Canada, uncountable)Canadian football: agame played on a field 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get anovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:football
    They playedfootball in the snow.
  5. (Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, southern New South Wales, uncountable)Australian rules football.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:football
  6. (Ireland, uncountable)Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules tohurling, 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.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:football
  8. (Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, uncountable)rugby union.
  9. (countable) The ball used in any game called "football".
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:football
    The player kicked thefootball.
  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
    That budget item became a politicalfootball.
  12. (US military slang, countable) The leatherbriefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.
    Synonyms:nuclear football,atomic football,black box,black bag
    Coordinate term:Cheget
    • 1994, Herbert L. Abrams,The President Has Been Shot: Confusion, Disability, and the 25th Amendment, Stanford University Press,→ISBN,page126:
      The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade. He is responsible for thefootball (or “black box” or “black bag”), a briefcase containing the codes and targeting information the president would require to order or authorize a nuclear attack.
    • 2020 June 23,John Bolton,The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.:Simon & Schuster,→ISBN, page155:
      After the lunch broke, we walked to the Trump-Putin press conference, which started about 6 p.m. As Kelly observed to me at some point, there were now two military aides in the room, each carrying his country's nuclearfootball.

Usage notes

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  • The wordfootball usually refers to the most popular football code in that country or region. In some places, multiple sports can be calledfootball (for example, in Australia it may refer to soccer, Australian rules football, rugby union or rugby league depending on the area and speaker) and context can be required to tell to which sport it refers. In countries where no form of football is dominant, and among English as a second language speakers in general,football usually refers to association football (soccer) by default.

Hyponyms

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Derived terms

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Related terms

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Descendants

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Descendants

Translations

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association football
US game—seeAmerican football
Canadian game—seeCanadian football
game in Northern Territory, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
game in New South Wales, Queensland
ball
practise of any of these games
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Verb

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football (third-person singular simple presentfootballs,present participlefootballing,simple past and past participlefootballed)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To play football.
    • 1969, Alec Hugh Chisholm,The Joy of the Earth, page358:
      It was an announcement of the outbreak of what is now termed World War I. Some of us lads werefootballing when we heard the news. It left us bewildered.
    • 2019, David Randall,Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place:
      You walked up our road, passed the elms that bordered our park until Dutch disease killed them in the early 1970s, diagonally crossed its field where wefootballed, turned right at the drinking fountain and cattle trough[…]

See also

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References

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  1. ^Associated Press (2005 May 5) “Military aides still carry the president's nuclear 'football'”, inUSA Today‎[1], archived fromthe original on2015-02-26: “It got its nickname because an early version of the nuclear war plan — the SIOP, or Single Integrated Operational Plan — was code-named "dropkick."”

Further reading

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishfootball.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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football m (pluralfootballs)

  1. association football,soccer
    Synonyms:foot,(Louisiana)pelote au pied,(North America)soccer
  2. (Canada)Canadian football
    Synonym:football canadien
  3. (US)American football
    Synonym:football américain

Hyponyms

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Further reading

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Interlingua

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Etymology

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FromEnglishfootball.

Noun

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football (uncountable)

  1. football (UK),soccer (US, Canada)

Middle English

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Noun

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football

  1. Alternative form offotbal

Portuguese

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Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil)IPA(key): /ˈfu.t͡ʃi.bow/[ˈfu.t͡ʃi.boʊ̯],/ˈfut͡ʃ.bow/[ˈfut͡ʃ.boʊ̯]
  • (Brazil)IPA(key): /ˈfu.t͡ʃi.bow/[ˈfu.t͡ʃi.boʊ̯],/ˈfut͡ʃ.bow/[ˈfut͡ʃ.boʊ̯]
    • (Southern Brazil)IPA(key): /ˈfut͡ʃ.bow/[ˈfut͡ʃ.boʊ̯],/ˈfu.t͡ʃi.bow/[ˈfu.t͡ʃi.boʊ̯]
  • (Portugal)IPA(key): /ˈfu.tbol/[ˈfu.tβoɫ],/ˈfu.tbɔl/[ˈfu.tβɔɫ]

Noun

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football m (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling offutebol

Swedish

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Etymology

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FromEnglishfootball, clipping ofEnglishAmerican football,.

football c

  1. American football

Usage notes

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Found primarily in subtitling of television and movies, due to its brevity, wherefotboll could be interpreted asassociation football.

Synonyms

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