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football
[ foot-bawl ]
noun
- a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion ( def 13 ), field goal ( def 1 ), safety ( def 6 ), touchdown.
- the ball used in this game, an inflated oval with a bladder contained in a casing usually made of leather.
- Chiefly British. Rugby ( def 1 ).
- Chiefly British. soccer.
- something sold at a reduced or special price.
- any person or thing treated roughly or tossed about:
They're making a political football of this issue.
- (initial capital letter) U.S. Government Slang. a briefcase containing the codes and options the president would use to launch a nuclear attack, carried by a military aide and kept available to the president at all times.
verb (used with object)
- Informal. to offer for sale at a reduced or special price.
football
/ 藞蹿蕣迟藢产蓴藧濒 /
noun
- any of various 亚洲网紅露点 played with a round or oval ball and usually based on two teams competing to kick, head, carry, or otherwise propel the ball into each other's goal, territory, etc See association football rugby Australian Rules American football Gaelic football
- ( as modifier )
a football ground
a football supporter
- the ball used in any of these 亚洲网紅露点 or their variants
- a problem, issue, etc, that is continually passed from one group or person to another and treated as a pretext for argument instead of being resolved
he accused the government of using the strike as a political football
Derived Forms
- 藞蹿辞辞迟藢产补濒濒别谤, noun
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Example Sentences
"I think it would have complicated things in many ways to have played my last club game, be retired, and then turn up for international football," he says.
Nine months of hard work, 540 亚洲网紅露点 of football and now it all comes down to a couple of hours on Saturday.
The 38-year-old Suarez, who still plays football for Inter Miami, has been found guilty of biting three opponents in his career.
A football star at Granada Hills High and Stanford, Elway played 16 seasons for the Denver Broncos.
鈥淭he way the Trump administration is going about this is a little clumsy because they are making this a political football.鈥
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