football game
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- noun
- /ˈfʊtˌbɔl ɡeɪm/
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partido de fútbol
- Last weekend, we attended an exciting football game where our team won in the last minutes.
- attend a football game
- watch football games
- play a football game
I watch the women's football game the other week, enjoyed that.
- I watch the women's football game the other week, enjoyed that.
- We ended up winning that football game and I'm big on energy.
- But what's like a key football game ticket going to cost you?
- We left the football game and went to a pigsty.
- I was watching Florida State, LSU, maybe football game at a bar.
- This is probably after like a football game and we all like went to Denny's.
- He's like, you know, this is half time in the football game.
- When he was suspended, he went to my son's football game.
- That's how sad I was for something as silly as a football game.
Examples
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We ended up winning that football game and I'm big on energy.
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Two days before Election Day, Mohamed Warsame was at a friend's apartment, watching a football game.
Academic text (2017) -
So when we were doing this, the football game was on, like his team was playing.
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OK, so I want you to picture yourself watching a football game on TV.
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And ask him for tickets to the football game.
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On Saturday afternoon before the football game.
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When he turned on the TV, the football game was just beginning.
Fiction book (1995) -
So we went to the Tennessee football game and it's an orange team.
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Jared and Mark are eating pizza and watching a football game on TV.
Fiction book (1999) -
I grew up in upstate New York, and the first football game I ever saw was the Steelers in the Super Bowl.
Synonyms
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One part of a match in sports, played to win points
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'football' names the sport and 'game' denotes a contest or play, so a B1 learner who knows both words will infer 'a game of football' (including a simulated/video version) without prior exposure. The slight ambiguity between a real match and a video simulation does not prevent straightforward derivation from the constituent meanings, and this construction is cross-linguistically common.
Etymology
Football game combines football (a sport played by kicking a ball) and game (a match). The image to remember is teams on a field trying to score points, so it means 'a match in which teams play football'.