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soccer

//ˈsɒk.ə//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

Note for soccer

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Forms

present (v1)
soccer
past (v2)
soccered
past participle (v3)
soccered
present participle
soccering
3rd person singular
soccers

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.Association football.

    • Diehard soccer fans likely have become familiar with England’s Sky Sports News channel over the years.
    • Golf is perhaps seven or eight years old in Oxford, .. football, seu Rugger, sive Soccer, not more than sixteen or seventeen.
    • The 'Varsity played Aston Villa and were beaten after a very exciting game; this was pre-eminently the most important "Socker" game played in Oxford this term.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.

    • The rule seems to have encouraged players to soccer the ball along the ground.
    • 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.

Frequency

Overall

Uncommon· #3548

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Uncommon
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Etymology

Originally British English; as an abbreviation for association football, via abbreviation assoc. + -er (suffix); earlier socker (1885), also socca (1889), with soccer attested 1888.

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