football

  1. Noun.  (context, chiefly) association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball.
  2. Noun.  (US, uncountable) American football: a game in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
  3. Noun.  (Canada, uncountable) Canadian football: a game played on a wide field in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
  4. Noun.  (Australia, Victoria) Australian rules football.
  5. Noun.  (context, Ireland) 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.
  6. Noun.  (Australia, New South Wales) rugby league.
  7. Noun.  (Australia, Ireland) rugby union.
  8. Noun.  (countable) The ball used in any game called "football".
  9. Noun.  (uncountable) Practise of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
  10. Noun.  (context, figuratively) An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner.
  11. Noun.  (slang, countable) The nickname of the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.

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