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A ball used in any of the various games called football, either round (e.g. in soccer) or oval (e.g. in rugby and American football) and typically…
a football, or the game of football.
The action of kicking a rugby ball about for practice; an instance of this. Also (chiefly Rugby School): a ball used for this (now historical).
Cricket and Football. The ball.
An object made of pig leather. U.S. colloquial. A football; (also) football as a game.