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soccer

soc·cer [ sókər ]


noun 
Definition:
 
North America ball game using no hands: a game in which two teams of 11 players try to score by kicking or butting a round ball into the net goals on either end of a rectangular field

[Late 19th century. <Assoc., abbreviation of association (in association football) + -er, suffix added to shortened forms of words]
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