football

Definition

  • noun: any one of several games in which two teams try to get a ball to the goals at each end of a large field
  • noun: any of several games played between two teams on a usually rectangular field having goalposts or goals at each end and whose object is to get the ball over a goal line, into a goal, or between goalposts by running, passing, or kicking
  • synonyms: pill, pigskin, outdated

Examples

  • This issue is too important to be treated as a 'political football'.

  • He played a lot of 'football' in high school and college.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) ...of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine. Or maybe I just don't want to. Five hundred yards. That's the length of five football fields. Just shy of half a mile. The next morning, right about the time Raquel was spilling her secret... ...a man nobody ever laid eyes on before... (..)
    1994 The Shawshank Redemption