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Australian rules

Australian rules is the ellipsis of Australian rules football.

Meaning of Australian rules football

Noun

Australian rules football (uncountable)

  1. A variety of football devised in Australia, played on an oval field with an oval ball that players try to kick between the goalposts or between a central and outer post.

Questions about Australian rules

What is Australian rules the ellipsis of?
Australian rules is the ellipsis of Australian rules football.

Words near Australian rules in the dictionary

  1. Australian raven
  2. Australian ravens
  3. Australian reed warbler
  4. Australian reed warblers
  5. Australian rhyming slang
  6. Australian rules
  7. Australian rules football
  8. Australian salmon
  9. Australian Shepherd
  10. Australian Shepherds
  11. Australian Sign Language

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Australian rules (page history and authors); Australian rules football (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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