American football
See also: American Football
English
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Noun
editAmerican football (uncountable) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei)
- A team sport similar to rugby football, played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "Chain mail, or an American football suit - that's what you'll want."
Usage notes
edit- Called football in the United States and Canada and American football elsewhere in the world.
Synonyms
edit- American handegg
- feetsball (slang)
- handegg
- NFL
Hypernyms
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editAmerican football
See also
edit- association football
- Canadian football
- North American football
- football
- gridiron
- rugby
- rugby football
- soccer
Further reading
edit- American football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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