football
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- noun
- /ˈfʊtˌbɔl/
:
fútbol
- Antonio Gates never played college football and dominated the NFL.
- a football game
- play football
- football player
He's a big guy, played football and she was thick.
- He's a big guy, played football and she was thick.
- And so he started to tell football stories of his greatness.
- So television, you know, broadcasting football didn't kill football.
- It's just the pool of talent in football is so goddamn deep.
- Daddy didn't come to my football practice on Tuesday.
- You want your football club to to, to succeed.
- So one of them was a football goal or a football net.
- And you can only bet on football right now.
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We played Yale in football and won each November.
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I played grassroots football for years before my first professional contract.
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But back to college football, the real deal.
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But you might find him playing football in town.
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When they had football, he used to sell programs at the stadium.
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Columbus is a tremendous football town.
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I like to watch football and that's it.
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The average salary for a football coach at a top 120 school is $1.36 million.
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My son likes football.
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He loves to play football with his friends every Saturday.
Synonyms
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1.0
A team game where two teams of eleven try to score by kicking a ball into the other team's net
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A team game where two teams carry and pass an oval ball
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A casual name for the game of football, like soccer or Australian rules
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A team sport where two teams try to carry or pass an oval ball into the other team's end zone
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A team game with an oval ball where players run, pass, and kick to score points
A team sport where two teams of eleven kick a ball into the other team's goal
A fast Australian game where teams kick an oval ball between goalposts to score
Idioms
To promise help again and again and then take it away at the last moment
Compounds
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A group of players who play football together, like soccer or American football
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A match where two teams try to score points by moving a ball into the other team's goal
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A version of American football where players touch the player with the ball to stop them instead of tackling
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2.8
A team sport where two teams try to carry or pass an oval ball into the other team's end zone
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A hard padded hat with a face mask that protects a player's head and face during American football
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Team sport with two 11-player teams trying to move the ball into the other end zone by running or passing
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A planned move in American football by the team with the ball to move it or score
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3.2
A team game with an oval ball where players run, pass, and kick to score points
A team sport where two teams of eleven kick a ball into the other team's goal
- Australian
A fast Australian game where teams kick an oval ball between goalposts to score
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Football originally named games played on the feet (not on horses) with a ball, so the name is just foot + ball. That's why today football means team sports where players try to kick, carry, or move a ball to score.