foul
noun/faʊl/
/faʊl/
- (in sport) an action that is against the rules of the game
- It was a clear foul by Ford on the goalkeeper.
- (North American English) to hit a foul (= in baseball, a ball that is too far left or right, outside the lines that mark the side of the field)
Extra ExamplesTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc1- She drew a fourth foul on Mead.
- He was sent off for a blatant foul on Haaland.
- The referee did not call a foul on the player.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- blatant
- clear
- deliberate
- …
- commit
- draw
- call
- …
- foul on
Word OriginOld English fūl, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse fúll ‘foul’, Dutch vuil ‘dirty’, and German faul ‘rotten, lazy’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pus, Greek puos ‘pus’, and Latin putere ‘to stink’.Want to learn more?
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