Soccer
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English
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 *asser if abbreviating on first syllable.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
Soccer (uncountable)- (chiefly North America, Australian) 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
- (UK) 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)
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Verb
Soccer (third-person singular simple present Soccers, present participle Soccering, simple past and past participle Soccered)
- (Australian rules football) To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2003 Geoffrey Blainey, A Game of Our Own: The Origins of Australian Football, Black Inc. Publishing, p73.
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French
Noun
Soccer m. (usually uncountable)
- (Quebec) soccer
Synonyms
- football m. (European French)
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