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noun
- (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 .
- (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 .
- (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.
- (context, Australia, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania, Northern Territory, uncountable) Australian rules football.
- (context, Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, uncountable) Rugby League.
- (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".
- (countable) The ball used in any game called "football".
- ''The player kicked the .
- Practise of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
- (context, metaphorical) An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
- That budget item became a political .
- (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.
- (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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