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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. 3).

Chiefly British. soccer.

something sold at a reduced or special price.

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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.

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verb (used with object)

Informal. to offer for sale at a reduced or special price.

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to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English fut ball. See foot, ball¹

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Others contended it was too warm for a football game.

Many colleges allow football players to take the easy way out.

Football draws as much attention lately for the knocks that players take as it does for their drives down the field.

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Others contended it was too warm for a football game.

Many colleges allow football players to take the easy way out.

Football draws as much attention lately for the knocks that players take as it does for their drives down the field.

To reach the pro level, football players must compete aggressively.

No matter where team loyalties lie, football fans unite every season for food-filled game days.

Delivering game balls to the official before a football game isn't normally a big deal.

For football players, turf toe is a common malady that is more of a nuisance than a serious injury.

Audio recordings of this year's pro football playoff games will be available for download.

College football is an inherently violent sport, but rarely does that brutality extend to the team's mascots.

The cinema continues to toy mournfully with the problem of the national football heroes and their fate when they leave college.

College football head coaches definitely deserve to get paid the amount that they do.

From a physics perspective, football is all about overcoming inertia.

He was also a football ancient-38 years old-and looked it.

When local football and basketball teams were victorious, voters were.

Colleges eager to attract men to increasingly female campuses have found that football teams can be a lure.

Old-style college football bore strong resemblances to contemporary lacrosse.

Football has a constant and easy to understand playing style.

Roughly the size of football fields, the moonlets may hold the secret to where the rings came from.

And across the country, football season officially begins.

Flag football has become a fast-growing varsity sport for high school girls, but critics call it a dead-end activity.

After all, they're the only team in college football to play on a bright.

Erik is a high school football star and his dad has plans from him to join the pros one day.

He found the muscular football players appalling and despaired of finding a barber who could give a proper haircut.

Basketball and football were out of the question, dad said:.

If everything in fantasy football was certain, where would the fun.

Much of the concern about concussions has been related to football players, but other athletes are also at risk.

High-tech fisheries now trawl the oceans with nets the size of football fields.

Unlike the focused heat of a football player, say, hot aggression is impulsive and reactive.

Each is about the size of a football field and has three stories.

As technology has evolved, so has the equipment worn by football players.

The tragic side of pro football is increasingly emerging from the shadows.

When completed, it will be larger than a football field and weigh up to a million pounds.

Youth hockey players have started to wear the same type of helmet sensors as some football teams.

There is a reason fighter jets and football teams are named after falcons.

New research shows that football and soccer players risk permanent damage from concussions on the playing field.

Many teenagers who play high school football do not know what a concussion is or they simply do not care.

Our hotel had an enormous pool that was in an area the size of three football fields.

It will be safer than automobile racing, and not much more dangerous than football.

National broadcasts of high school football have put coaches in the spotlight, and in potentially dangerous territory.

The blocks are the remnants of a spillway across a sloping dam that may have extended as long as a football field.

It s noxious and unsafe, and our kids are out playing on a football field that reeks.

Some potential fantasy football breakout and sleeper candidates to keep an eye on for the coming season.

He has won soccer and karate awards and enjoys football and swimming.

TO is a complaining little girl when it comes to football.

There will also be a discussion of new materials for football helmets.

News and notes from recent preseason action and how it may affect your next fantasy football draft.

It can help an athlete jump more than a hundred yards, or the length of a football field.

Look at football players collapsing after a game--and they're usually fit to start with.

Its eruptive area is about the length of a football field.

Now picture it sliding a distance of roughly three football fields, making it the largest.

He survived partly because he was a good goalkeeper on the prison football team.

The hot spots ranged in size from that of a football field to an area the size of an entire golf course.

Its royal palace covered an area equal to more than five football fields.

Try telling that to the crowd at the next football tailgate.

There is another one was about a quarterback on a football team during a game.

The largest of them stretched as far as two football fields laid end to end.

As school districts nationwide grapple with severe budget cuts, one sport has weathered the recession better than most: football.

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football (ˈfʊtˌbɔːl)

—n
1.	a. association football rugby Australian Rules American football See Gaelic football any of various games 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
	b. (as modifier): a football ground; a football supporter
2.	the ball used in any of these games or their variants
3.	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

'footballer

—n

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Word Origin & History

football

the open-air game, first recorded 1409; forbidden in a Scottish statute of 1424. The first reference to the ball itself is 1486. Figurative sense of "something idly kicked around" is first recorded 1532. Ball-kicking games date back to the Roman legions, at least, but the sport seems to have risen to

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a national obsession in England, c.1630. Rules first regularized at Cambridge, 1848; soccer (q.v.) split off in 1863. The U.S. style (known to some in England as "stop-start rugby with padding") evolved gradually 19c.; the first true collegiate game is considered to have been played Nov. 6, 1869, between Princeton and Rutgers, at Rutgers, but the rules there were more like soccer. A rematch at Princeton Nov. 13, with the home team's rules, was true U.S. football. The earliest recorded application of the word football to this is from 1881.

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"In baseball there are generalists, who keep their eye on the ball and see the big picture; football is full of special-duty characters who are very limited in terms of their range but have depth. Baseball represents America before the frontier ended, when there was plenty of space and plenty of time, and philosophic anarchists roamed around on verdant fields "doing their thing" with a free and reckless abandon. The game is relaxing and not particularly taxing on the players, who play many times each week. Football is tremendously difficult on the players and is so tiring that sixty minutes of clock time—which amounts to several hours of real time—exhausts them. Baseball developed when we thought nature was a limitless reservoir and we would always live in abundance. Football reflects a different world view; everything has to be fought for, resources are precious, hostile people (guards, monster men) are everywhere and in such a world you have to grab what you can."

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