Football

• foot‧ball
• 1 [uncountable] British English a game played by two teams of eleven players who try to kick a round ball into the other team's goal [= soccer]:
• Which football team do you support?
• kids playing football in the street
• My Dad took me to watch my first football match.
• a football club
• football fan/supporter
• a group of Scottish football fans
• football boots/kit/shirt (=clothes worn to play football)
• football pitch/ground/stadium
• 2 [uncountable] American English a game played by two teams of eleven players who try to carry or kick an oval ball into the other team's goal[= American football British English]
• college football games
• a football field
• He played football in high school.
• 3

  football hooligan

  British English someone who behaves in a noisy or violent way at a football match
• 4 [countable] a ball used in these games
• ➔ flag football

  ; ➔ political football

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Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.