Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A game played on a rectangular field with net goals at either end in which two teams of 11 players each try to drive a ball into the other's goal by kicking, heading, or using any part of the body except the arms and hands. The goalie is the only player who may touch or move the ball with the arms or hands.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The ‘Association’ game of football. See foot-ball, 2.
Wiktionary
- n. Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa Association football, a game in which two teams of eleven players contend to get a round ball into their opponent's goal primarily by kicking the ball with their feet.
- v. Australian rules football To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal
Etymologies
- Colloquial abbreviation for Association football, via abbreviation Assoc. + -er (“(slang suffix)”); earlier socca (1889), then socker (1891), with soccer attested 1895. (Wiktionary)
- From alteration of assoc., abbreviation of association football. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Flopping in soccer is like fighting in hockey — it would be relatively easy to get rid of most of it.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » How Jonathan Adler Gets It Wrong, and Soccer Gets It Right:
“Violence in soccer is definitely not an immigrant problem, as the Freedom Party would like people to believe," he said.”
“PHILLIPS: And we've heard the term soccer moms and NASCAR dads.”
“Since the term soccer was created in England you would think”
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“We've all heard the cheap jokes at the expense of our "Mickey Mouse" league, the tiresome jibes about the term soccer and how Americans mispronounce it.”
“June 12, 2010 why do americans call it soccer? historical as you might imagine ...”
“For example, what we call soccer and you call football, you seem to make a very good deal and people criticize you for it, that you get it on a handheld, exclusively.”
““If you pop into a casino, put a hundred on Ireland to beat Germany in what you call soccer.””
“The U.S. is also the only major country that does not follow football (what we call soccer).”
“I played football, what you call soccer in the United States.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘soccer’.
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Americanism
American words
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SPOR - Olympic glossary
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POL - What is Mitt talking about?
Key terms from Mitt Romney's election campaign
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Ball Games and Sports
A list of games and sports played with a ball, including names of the courts, fields and pitches in which they are played.
I'll start the list with Basque pelota, which is played in Id...Basque pelota, bocce, pitch, crease, cricket, bowls, field, gridiron, court, basketball, netball, soccer and 106 more...
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favorite sports
hockey, softball, volleyball, basketball, tennis, soccer, track, forensics, lacrosse, ping pong, swimming, football and 13 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
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Love
I abosolutly posotutly love all the words in this list.
strange, soccer, totally, like, radical, awesome, retro, funky
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jamieb's Words
obsequious, whimsical, flagella, matrix, happy, pineapple, joy, ambulophobia, lysozome, time, yawn, fracture and 111 more...
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MadFun's Words
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Wide Wordie of Sports
soccer, baseball, football, basketball, polo, handball, triathlon, biathlon, heptathlon, decathlon, parkour, boxing and 56 more...
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Tweets
Looking for tweets for soccer.
bilby As compared to rugby football --> rugger.
Could they have not explored the potention of asser? Jun 23, 2008
johnmperry Association football
...soc... Jun 22, 2008