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footballer

[ foot-baw-ler ]

noun

  1. a football player, especially a member of a college or professional team.
  2. Chiefly British. a soccer player.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of footballer1

First recorded in 1875–80; football + -er 1
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Example Sentences

Some of it is longer-form like Canadian filmmaker Adrijan Assoufi’s six-minute documentary about one of the last matches legendary footballer Diego Maradona played before he retired.

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Footballers rarely get any training on how to develop their own brand.

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The social media training a footballer gets, for example, will be focused on not getting the club in trouble.

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The NFL teams will all be weighing up the impact of drafting the first openly gay pro-footballer.

But Stoney, who has 116 caps for England, is now the most high-profile active gay footballer in England.

All-American Surprise, Ruined This Boise State footballer wins the game, and the girl.

The footballer insisted the sex was consensual and was cleared of rape—only to plead guilty to simple assault.

He wasn't the first professional footballer she had dated," Barboni says, "but it is better that I don't comment on this.

Bernard Monck swooped down with the action of a practised footballer and took the furry thing out of Tessa's hold.

He immediately swerved into it like a footballer making a dodging run, then turned away again.

He felt like a confirmed Association footballer suddenly called upon to play in an International Rugby match.

With the calves of a footballer and the upper limbs of a Sandow, she is a fearful and wonderful example of the female form divine.

Good cricketer and footballer, I mean, and all that sort of thing.

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