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football (iou)



football noun & verb. LME.
[from FOOT noun + BALL noun1.]
A. noun.
A large round or elliptical inflated ball, usu. of leather or (now) plastic. LME.
A primarily open-air game played with such a ball by two sides each seeking to move it across the opponents' goal-line by kicking or other permitted means; (manner or style of) the playing of this game. LME.
American football, Association football, Australian Rules football, five-a-side football, Gaelic football, rugby football, etc. football boot, football club, football ground, football helmet, football match, football pitch, football player, etc.
Listener Most of the impressive football came from Real Madrid.
fig. A person or thing continually kicked or tossed or bandied about. M16.
L. Adamic The Yugoslav peoples were once again a football in international power politics.
Comb.: football coupon a coupon used in an entry for a football pool; football hooligan a person who engages in hooliganism while attending or travelling to or from a football match; football pool(s): see POOL noun2 5b.
b. verb.
verb trans. Kick or treat like a football. L16.
verb intrans. Play football. L19.
? Without specification usu. understood as Association football in Britain, American football in the US, Canadian football in Canada, Australian Rules football in Australia, rugby football in NZ, or whatever form of the game is most commonly played in the particular country or area.
footballer noun a football player L19.