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Noun:
- Australia|New South Wales|Queensland|uncountable rugby league.
- Australia|Victoria|South Australia|Western Australia|Tasmania|Northern Territory|uncountable Australian rules football.
- Canada|uncountable Canadian football: a game played on a wide field in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
- Ireland|uncountable A field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.
- metaphorical|countable An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner
- not North America|uncountable association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball.
- US|uncountable American football: a game in which two teams attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.
- countable The ball used in any game called "football".
- countable The nickname of the leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.
- uncountable Practise of these particular games, or techniques used in them.
Source: Wiktionary
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