football game
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- noun
- /ˈfʊtbɔl ɡeɪm/
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videojuego de fútbol
- Do you follow the football game?
- playing a football game
- like playing a football game
Examples
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We were having a similar conversation with our daughter this weekend about the football games on the other side of town.
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It reminds me of old electric football games that included plastic generic teams, and both teams were color on color.
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You play your football game.
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And a TV football game is not a real football game.
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In the past month, USAToday recorded a total of 21 college football games.
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I can genuinely say that I'm preparing to play a very good football game.
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Caleb did some more drawing and Fraser loved playing this football game on his iPod.
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My friends and I spent the afternoon playing a thrilling football game on our consoles.
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With its realistic graphics, this football game allows you to control players just like in real matches.
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Every weekend, I challenge my brother to a football game where we try to beat each other's high scores.
How Realistic
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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 can also mean a video game about football. It comes from football (the sport) and game (a match) shown on a screen where you control the players, so it means 'a video game that lets you play football'.