foot|ball

foot|ball «FUT _BL», noun.

1. a game played with a large, inflated, leather ball by two teams of eleven players each, on a field with a goal at each end; American football. The players try to score by carrying the ball past the goal line by a run or pass, or by kicking it through the goal posts.

2. the inflated, oval ball used in this game or in Rugby.

3. the spherical ball used in soccer.

4. British. Rugby.

5. British. soccer.

6. Figurative. a person or thing that is kicked or tossed about: »

The pollution issue became a political football in the election campaign.