football
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: compound
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English fotbal, footbal, equivalent to foot + ball, because the ball was primarily manipulated with the feet in early versions of the game (though some modern varieties involve more handling than kicking). The name for the briefcase is a play on “dropkick”, the code name of an early version of the nuclear war plan.
Compound parts: foot
ball
Inflected forms:
form: footballs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: foot-ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
form: foot ball
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dated
Senses:
gloss: A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football.
gloss: The ball used in any game called "football".
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The player kicked the football.
Hans Moleman Production presents: Man getting hit by football.
The league said the Super Bowl-bound New England Patriots used footballs that didn’t meet league specifications in the first half of the AFC championship game last Sunday.
“The coroner and the pathologist described how badly damaged my dad’s brain was,” his daughter Dawn told CNN in 2019. “He found that there was considerable evidence of trauma to the brain which he said was similar to the brain of the boxer. And he said that the main candidate for the trauma was heading the footballs.
gloss: Association football, also called soccer: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball.
pos: noun
tags: Africa
Caribbean
New-Zealand
South-Asia
UK
uncountable
examples: Each team scored three goals when they played football.
“Our research has shown that heading is rare in youth football matches, so this guidance is a responsible development to our grassroots coaching without impacting the enjoyment that children of all ages take from playing the game.”
gloss: American football: a game played on a field 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
pos: noun
tags: US
uncountable
examples: Each team scored two touchdowns when they played football.
According to Newsday, he took the ball to his team’s equipment staff, which then informed head coach Chuck Pagano, who told general manager Ryan Grigson, who told NFL director of football operations Mike Kensil, who told the officials on the field.
gloss: Canadian football: a game played on a field 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
uncountable
examples: They played football in the snow.
gloss: Australian rules football.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-South-Wales
South
Southern
Tasmania
Western
uncountable
examples: The weekend after AFL football chief Simon Lethlean made it clear players who jumper punched or punched opponents in the stomach would most likely be suspended, Jones was charged with striking Hawthorn’s Luke Breust.
gloss: Gaelic football: 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.
pos: noun
tags: Ireland
uncountable
gloss: Any form of rugby.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
countable
uncountable
examples: There's another game of football and there's a gold team and Mum and Dad are both on it!
gloss: Any form of rugby.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-South-Wales
New-Zealand
uncountable
gloss: Any form of rugby.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
uncountable
gloss: Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Both teams played open, attacking football and in the first thirty minutes, the referee barely blew his whistle.
Sloppy football continued after the first break, as the more composed Brunswick controlled the play by relying on the throw-pass: forty times to Williamstown's twenty-eight.
gloss: An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
examples: That budget item became a political football.
gloss: The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans which is always near the US President.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
slang
examples: The aide rides, along with the president's physician, in the “control car,” third in line in the motorcade. He is responsible for the football (or “black box” or “black bag”), a briefcase containing the codes and targeting information the president would require to order or authorize a nuclear attack.
After the lunch broke, we walked to the Trump-Putin press conference, which started about 6 p.m. As Kelly observed to me at some point, there were now two military aides in the room, each carrying his country's nuclear football.
It came in the shape of the White House military office Marine Corps aide who got off the president’s helicopter with him in Davos holding the “football”, the black briefcase carrying the codes for launching the 900 nuclear weapons the US has on alert at all times. It is the constant antidote to any temptation to laugh at Trump’s rants or gaffes.
Synonyms: association football
soccer
soccer football
football
footy
footie
footer
oikball
wogball
American football
gridiron
gridiron football
Canadian football
Aussie rules
VFL
AFL
league
ball
pill
soccer ball
pigskin
rugby ball
Related words: foosball
Derived words: Angeball
antifootball
aquatic football
Australian football
fantasy football
feetsball
football bar
football club
footballene
footballer
footballese
football field
footballfish
football fruit
football hooligan
football hooliganism
footballing
footballish
footballist
footballistic
footballization
football match
football minute
football pie
football pitch
football player
football pool
football tennis
footbrawl
footer
footy
hoofball
international football
international rules football
monkey humping a football
monkeys humping a football
nonfootball
North American football
pull the football
route one football
soccer football
take one's football and go home
tea-sodden football hooligan
total football
Yankee football
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: ավստրալական ֆուտբոլ
roman: avstralakan futbol
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 澳式足球
roman: ou³ sik¹ zuk¹ kau⁴
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 澳式足球
roman: Àoshì zúqiú
lang: Czech
word: australský fotbal
lang: Danish
word: australsk fodbold
lang: Faroese
word: avstralskur fótbóltur
lang: Finnish
word: australialainen jalkapallo
lang: French
word: football australien
lang: German
word: Australian Football
lang: Macedonian
word: австралиски фудбал
roman: avstraliski fudbal
lang: Marshallese
word: būtbo̧o̧ļ in Aujtōrōlia
lang: Polish
word: futbol australijski
lang: Romanian
word: fotbal australian
lang: Russian
word: австрали́йский футбо́л
roman: avstralíjskij futból
lang: Armenian
word: ռեգբիլիգ
roman: ṙegbilig
lang: Danish
word: rugby
lang: Finnish
word: rugby league
lang: French
word: rugby à XIII
lang: Macedonian
word: рагби
roman: ragbi
lang: Romanian
word: rugby în XIII
lang: Romanian
word: rugbi în XIII