American football
See also: American Football
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Noun
editAmerican football (uncountable) (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Myanmar, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei)
- A game similar to rugby football played on a field of one hundred yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide (with two ten yard-long endzones) in which two teams of eleven players attempt to get an ovoid ball into each other's territory.
- 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
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editAmerican football
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