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foot·ball  (ftbôl)

n.

1. Sports

a. A game played by two teams of 11 players each on a rectangular, 100-yard-long field with goal lines and goal posts at either end, the object being to gain possession of the ball and advance it in running or passing plays across the opponent's goal line or kick it through the air between the opponent's goal posts.

b. The inflated oval ball used in this game.

2. Chiefly British

a. Rugby.

b. Soccer.

c. The ball used in Rugby or soccer.

3. Informal A problem or issue that is discussed among groups or persons without being settled: The issue of tax reform became a political football.

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footballer n.

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football [ˈfʊtˌbɔːl]

n

1. (Team Sports, other than specified)

a.  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

b.  (as modifier) a football ground a football supporter

2. (Team Sports, other than specified) the ball used in any of these games or their variants

3. 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

footballer  n

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Football 

See Also: SPORTS

1. The ball just skittered around in the backfield like a puck on ice —Jonathan Valin
2. The ball peeled his head like an onion —Ken Stabler and Barry Stainback
3. Both players bounce up like toys —Richard Ford
4. My teammates were cringing in the huddle, like those scurvy hounds who live off garbage at county landfill projects —Pat Conroy
5. Passes faltered and tumbled like wounded ducks —James Crumley
6. Passes swerved like a diving duck —Y. A. Tittle, New York Giants quarterback, New York Times, January 12, 1987

   Tittle’s simile dates back to 1962 when his team won the playoff game for the National Football League championship.

7. Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors —Frank Gifford, Sports Illustrated, June 4, 1960
8. [Gary Anderson of the Miami Dolphins] runs like a locomotive —Craig James, Anderson’s teammate, New York Times/Sports of the Times, September 10, 1986
9. Some of them [professional players] always look like brooding Pillsbury Doughboys and some of them look wizened from the start, middle-aged and beaten down, as if they’d never known what it was like to be young —Jonathan Valin
10. To me football is like a day off. I grew up picking cotton on my daddy’s farm and nobody asked for your autograph or put your name in the paper for that —Lee Roy Jordan
11. Treated his players as if he had bought them at auction with a ring in their noses and was trying not to notice they smelled bad —Jim Murray, about football coach Paul Brown, Los Angeles Herald, 1986
12. [Football] uniforms … heavy as mattresses —Lael Tucker Wertenbaker

    See Also: CLOTHING

13. When you hit that line, it gave like a sponge, and when you tackled that big long Swede, he went down like he’d been hit by lightning —Sinclair Lewis
14. Without a network outlet, football will disappear like cigar smoke in the wind —Harvey Meyerson, summation at NFL-USFL trial, 1986

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	football - any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal football game punting, punt - (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground; "the punt traveled 50 yards"; "punting is an important part of the game" place kick, place-kicking - (sports) a kick in which the ball is placed on the ground before kicking dropkick - (football) kicking (as for a field goal) in which the football is dropped and kicked as it touches the ground juke, fake - (football) a deceptive move made by a football player football score - the score in a football game kickoff - (football) a kick from the center of the field to start a football game or to resume it after a score contact sport - a sport that necessarily involves body contact between opposing players field game - an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions American football, American football game - a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays professional football - football played for pay rugby, rugby football, rugger - a form of football played with an oval ball association football, soccer - a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal yard marker - (football) a marker indicating the yard line midfield - (sports) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse) back - (football) a person who plays in the backfield ball carrier, runner - (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play snapper, center - (football) the person who plays center on the line of scrimmage and snaps the ball to the quarterback; "the center fumbled the handoff" end - (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage; "the end managed to hold onto the pass" fullback - (football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team halfback - (football) the running back who plays the offensive halfback position forward passer, passer - (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by throwing a forward pass place-kicker, placekicker - (football) a kicker who makes a place kick for a goal punter - (football) a person who kicks the football by dropping it from the hands and contacting it with the foot before it hits the ground field general, quarterback, signal caller - (football) the person who plays quarterback running back - (football) a back on the offensive team (a fullback or halfback) who tries to advance the ball by carrying it on plays from the line of scrimmage rusher - (football) a ball carrier who tries to gain ground by running with the ball split end - (football) an offensive end who lines up at a distance from the other linemen tailback - (American football) the person who plays tailback tight end - (football) an offensive end who lines up close to the tackle wingback - (football) the person who plays wingback winger - (sports) player in wing position half - one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval quarter - (football, professional basketball) one of four divisions into which some games are divided; "both teams scored in the first quarter" line up - take one's position before a kick-off fullback - play the fullback quarterback - play the quarterback place-kick - score (a goal) by making a place kick kick - make a goal; "He kicked the extra point after touchdown" complete, nail - complete a pass tackle - seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball drop-kick, dropkick - drop and kick (a ball) as it touches the ground, as for a field goal drop-kick, dropkick - make the point after a touchdown with a dropkick ground - throw to the ground in order to stop play and avoid being tackled behind the line of scrimmage
	2.	football - the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football ball - round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games; "the ball travelled 90 mph on his serve"; "the mayor threw out the first ball"; "the ball rolled into the corner pocket" bladder - a bag that fills with air

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football

noun soccer, footy (informal), the beautiful game a game of football

Football

Terms used in (Association) Football 
aggregate (score), back, ballplayer, ballwinner, booking or caution, breakaway, cap, catenaccio, centre circle, centre forward, centre half, clearance, cross, crossbar or bar, corner (kick), cut out, defender, derby, direct free kick, dribble, dummy, extra time, FA, FIFA, finishing, forward, foul, free kick, fullback, full time, goal, goal area or six-yard box, goalkeeper or goalie, goal kick or bye kick, goal net or net, goalpost or post, half, halfback, half time, half way line, handball, indirect free kick, inside left, inside right, inswinger, international, kick off, lay off, left back, linesman, long ball, mark, midfield, midfielder, nil, non-league, nutmeg, offside, offside trap, onside, one-two, outside left, outside right, own goal, pass, pass-back, penalty (kick) or spot kick, penalty area or penalty box, penalty shoot-out, penalty spot, playoff, professional foul, promotion, red card, referee, relegation, reserves, right back, Route One, save, score draw, sending-off or ordering-off, SFA, shot, six-yard line, sliding tackle, stoppage time or injury time, striker, square, substitute, sweeper, tackle, target man, throw in, total football, touchline, transfer, trap, UEFA, wall, wall pass, wing, winger, yellow card

Terms used in Australian Rules Football 
Australian Football League or AFL, back pocket, behind or point, behind line, behind post, boundary, eighteen, the, field umpire, flank, footy, Aussie Rules, or (jocular) aerial ping-pong, follower, forward pocket, free kick, goal, goal umpire, guernsey, half-back, half-forward, handball, interchange, mark, nineteenth man, quarter, rove, rover, rub out, ruck, ruckrover, scrimmage, shepherd, shirt front, stab kick, stanza, throw in, twentieth man

Terms used in American football 
backfield, blitz, block, center, complete, cornerback, defense, defensive back, defensive end, down, end zone, field goal, football or pigskin, fullback, gridiron, guard, halfback, incomplete, interception, kicker, line or line of scrimmage, line backer, lineman, offense, overtime, pass, play, point after, punt, punter, quarterback, run or rush, running back, sack, safety, scrimmage, secondary, shotgun, snap, special team, Super Bowl, tackle, tight end, touchback, touchdown, turnover, wide receiver

Translations

football [ˈfʊtbɔːl]

A. N (Sport) → fútbol m; (= ball) → balón m de fútbol
to play football → jugar al fútbol

B. CPD football coupon N (Brit) → boleto m de quinielas
football ground N → campo m or (LAm) cancha f de fútbol
football hooligan N (Brit) → hooligan mf
football hooliganism N (Brit) → hooliganismo m, violencia f en las gradas
football league N → liga f de fútbol
football match N → partido m de fútbol
football player N → jugador(a) m/f de fútbol, futbolista mf
football pools NPL → quinielas fpl
football season N → temporada f de fútbol
football supporter N → hincha mf
football team N → equipo m de fútbol

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football [ˈfʊtbɔːl]

n

(= ball) → ballon m (de football)
Paul threw the football over the fence → Paul a envoyé le ballon par dessus la clôture.

(= sport) (British) → football m
I like playing football → J'aime jouer au football.

(= American football) (US) → football m américain

modif

(British) [championship, club, team, stadium] → de football

(US) [game] → de football américain

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football

n

→ Fußball m; (= American football) → (American) Football m

(= ball) → Fußball m, → Leder nt (inf)

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football:

football boot

n → Fußballschuh m, → Fußballstiefel m

football casual

n → Fußballprolo m (inf)

football coupon

n (Brit) → Tippzettel m, → Totoschein m

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football:

football fan

n → Fußballfan m

football hooligan

n → Fußballrowdy or -hooligan m

football hooliganism

n → Fußballkrawalle pl

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football [ˈfʊtˌbɔːl]

1. n (ball) → pallone m (Sport) (Brit) → calcio (000) (Am) → football m americano

2. adj (team, supporters) → di calcio

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