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noun
  1. (context, UK, uncountable) A game in which two teams of eleven players each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball with their foot, feet. In amateur games it may be a team of five or six, or indeed any number.
Each team scored three goals when they played .
  1. (context, US, fb, uncountable) A game similar to rugby football in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
Each team scored two touchdowns when they played .
  1. (context, 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.
They played in the snow.
  1. (context, Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, uncountable) Australian rules football.
  2. (context, Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable) Rugby League.
  3. (context, Australia, uncountable) Term occasionally used to refer to the same game as the British definition (association football), though the official name in Australia is "soccer".
  4. (countable) The ball used in any game called "football".
''The player kicked the .
  1. Practise of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
  2. (context, metaphorical) An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
That budget item became a political .
  1. (context, Ireland) 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.
  2. (slang) The nickname of the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.
Translations:
  • Dutch: voetballen
  • French: ballon de foot , ballon
  • German: American Football
  • Italian: pallone , palla da calcio , palla , pallone da calcio
  • Spanish: fíºtbol americano ; fíºtbol estadounidense
Etymology: foot + ball

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