Soccer

Etymology
Colloquial abbreviation for Association football, via abbreviation assoc.:; earlier socca: (1889), then socker: (1891), with soccer attested 1895.

Compare contemporary rugger: from Rugby:, and note vulgar connotations of analogous *undefined: if abbreviating on first syllable.

Noun

 * 1)  a game in which two teams of eleven players contend to get a round ball into their goal primarily by kicking the ball with their feet

Synonyms

 * Association football
 * football (note that this term is also used for several other codes of football: American football, Australian Rules football, Canadian football, Rugby League, Rugby Union)

Related terms

 * rugger

Translations

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 * Czech:, kopaná
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 * French: (Europe),  (America, Australia)
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 * Guaraní: vakapi
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , फुटबॉल
 * Hungarian:, , (informal)
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian: sepakbola
 * Interlingua: football
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 * Roman: fudbal, nogomet
 * Slovak: futbal,
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 * Spanish:, ; , ;
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: putbol
 * Thai: ฟุตบอล
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: فٹ بال
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: pêl-droed
 * West Frisian: fuotbal
 * Yiddish:
 * Zulu: ibhola

Verb

 * 1)  To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.
 * 2) * 2003 Geoffrey Blainey, A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football, Black Inc. Publishing, p73.
 * The rule seems to have encouraged players to soccer the ball along the ground.
 * 1) * 2010 March 27, Michael Whiting, "Lions give Fev debut to remember", AFL - The official site of the Australian Football League.
 * Fevola showed the best and worst of his play after dropping a simple chest mark, only to regather seconds later and soccer the ball through from the most acute of angles.

Noun

 * 1)  soccer

Synonyms

 * football (European French)

Anagrams

 * escroc

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