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soccer - 3 dictionary results

soc⋅cer

[sok-er]
–noun
a form of football played between two teams of 11 players, in which the ball may be advanced by kicking or by bouncing it off any part of the body but the arms and hands, except in the case of the goalkeepers, who may use their hands to catch, carry, throw, or stop the ball.

Origin:
1890–95; (As)soc(iation football) + -er 7
soc·cer   (sŏk'ər)   
n.  A game played on a rectangular field with net goals at either end in which two teams of 11 players each try to drive a ball into the other's goal by kicking, heading, or using any part of the body except the arms and hands. The goalie is the only player who may touch or move the ball with the arms or hands.

[From alteration of assoc., abbreviation of association football.]

soccer 
1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang, from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); cf. rugger, but they hardly could have taken the first three letters of Assoc.
Language Translation for : soccer
Spanish: fútbol,
German: das Fußballspiel,
Japanese: サッカー
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