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footballers

footballers is the plural of footballer.

Meaning of footballer

Noun

footballer (plural footballers)

  1. (New Zealand, UK) One who plays association football.
    • It is footballers though, rather than commentators, presenters or pundits, who when interviewed have provided some of the best Colemanballs.2004, George Best, Scoring At Half-Time: Adventures On and Off the Pitch, →ISBN, page 259
  2. (Australia) One who plays Australian rules football.
  3. (Ireland) One who plays Gaelic football.
  4. (proscribed, rare) One who plays American football.
    • Footballer Tae Gordon named league MVP2016 December 15, cochraneeagle.ca
  5. Any fish in the kyphosid subfamily Microcanthinae.

Phrases with footballers

Questions about footballers

What is footballers the plural of?
Footballers is the plural of footballer.

Words near footballers in the dictionary

  1. football-player
  2. football-players
  3. footballed
  4. footballene
  5. footballer
  6. footballers
  7. footballese
  8. footballfish
  9. footballfishes
  10. footballification
  11. footballified

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