soccer

English

A game of soccer.

Wikipedia

Etymology

Colloquial abbreviation for Association football, via abbreviation Assoc. +‎ -er (“(slang suffix)”); 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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈsɒk.əː/ SAMPA: /"sQk@/
• (US) IPA: /ˈsɑk.ɚ/ SAMPA: /"sAk@`/
• Rhymes: -ɒkə(r)

Noun

soccer (uncountable)

1. (chiefly North America, Australian, Ireland) 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)

Related terms

• rugger

See also

• Wikipedia article on Soccer

Translations

soccer

Afrikaans: sokker (af) Arabic: كرة القدم (ar) (kúrat al-qádam) f. Armenian: ֆուտբոլ (hy) (futbol) Azeri: futbol (az) Bosnian: fudbal (bs) m., nogomet (bs) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 足球 (cmn) (zúqiú) Croatian: nogomet (hr) m. Czech: fotbal (cs) m., kopaná (cs) f. Danish: fodbold (da) c. Dutch: voetbal (nl) n. Finnish: jalkapallo (fi) French: football (fr) m. (Europe), soccer (fr) m. (America, Australia) Georgian: ფეხბურთი (ka) (p'exburt'i) German: Fußball (de) m. Greek: ποδόσφαιρο (el) (podósfairo) n. Guaraní: vakapi Hebrew: כַּדּוּרֶגֶל (he) (kadurégel) m. Hindi: फ़ुटबॉल (hi) (fuṭbol), फ़ुटबाल (hi) (fuṭbāl, fuṭbol), फुटबॉल (hi) (phuṭbol) Hungarian: labdarúgás (hu), futball (hu), foci (hu) (informal) Icelandic: fótbolti (is) m., knattspyrna (is) f. Indonesian: sepakbola (id) Interlingua: football Italian: calcio (it) m. Japanese: サッカー (ja) (sakkā), 蹴球 (ja) (しゅうきゅう, shūkyū) (rare) Korean: 축구 (ko) (chukgu) (蹴球 (ko)) Macedonian: фудбал (mk) (fúdbal) m. Malay: bola sepak (ms) Navajo: jooł nabíznítaałí

Norwegian: fotball (no) m. Persian: فوتبال (fa) (futbâl) Polish: piłka nożna (pl) f. Portuguese: futebol (pt) m. Romanian: fotbal (ro) n. Russian: футбол (ru) (futból) m. Scottish Gaelic: ball-coise (gd) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: фудбал (sr) m., ногомет (sr) m. Roman: fudbal m., nogomet m. Slovak: futbal (sk) m., fotbal (sk) m. Slovene: nogomet (sl) m. Sotho: bolo (st) Spanish: fútbol (es) m., (Mexico) futbol (es); balompié (es) m., balón-pie (es) m.; (Mexico) pambol (es) Swahili: soka (sw), kandanda (sw) Swedish: fotboll (sv) c. Tagalog: putbol (tl) Tajik: футбол (tg) Thai: ฟุตบอล (th) (fóot-bon) Turkish: futbol (tr) Ukrainian: футбол (uk) (futból) m., копаний м’яч (uk) (kópanyj m”jač) m. Urdu: فٹ بال (ur) (fuṭ bāl) Vietnamese: bóng đá (vi) Welsh: pêl-droed (cy) m. West Frisian: fuotbal (fy) Template:u Yiddish: פֿוסבאָל (yi) (fusbol) m. Zulu: ibhola

Verb

soccer (third-person singular simple present soccers, present participle soccering, simple past and past participle soccered)

1. (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.

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French

Noun

soccer m. (usually uncountable)

1. (Quebec) soccer (association football)

Synonyms

• football m. (European French)

Anagrams

• escroc