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football-player

football-player is the rare form of football player.

Meaning of football player

Noun

football player (plural football players)

  1. (Canada, US) One who plays gridiron football.
  2. (UK) One who plays association football, aka soccer.
  3. (US) One who plays American football.
  4. (Canada, Canadian) One who plays Canadian football.
  5. (figuratively, informal) A large, intimidating male.

Forms of football-player

pluralfootball-players

Questions about football-player

What is football-player the rare form of?
Football-player is the rare form of football player.

Words near football-player in the dictionary

  1. football players
  2. football pool
  3. football pools
  4. football tennis
  5. Football War
  6. football-player
  7. football-players
  8. footballed
  9. footballene
  10. footballer
  11. footballers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: football-player (page history and authors); football player (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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