Football

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  football \foot"ball`\, n.
     An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India
     rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather. --Waller.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The American football is an oblate spheroid, with


           pointed ends. In other countries, the football is the
           same as a soccer ball. The games played with the two
           different balls are different. In the United States,
           the game played with a soccer ball is called soccer.
           [PJC]
  
     2. The game played with a football[1], by two opposing teams
        of players moving the ball between goals at opposite ends
        of a rectangular playing field. Outside the United States
        football refers to soccer, and in England, also to rugby,
        but in the United States the shape of the ball and the
        rules of the game are different. --Arbuthnot.
        [1913 Webster +PJC]
  
     3. Soccer or rugby. [Brit.]
        [PJC]
  
     4. [fig.] Something which is treated in a rough manner,
        usually as part of a dispute; as, a political football.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  football
       n 1: any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in
            which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball
            into each other's goal [syn: {football game}]
       2: the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football