Webster's English Dictionary

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soccer

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  1. association football  
 
soc.cer \'sa:k-*r\ n [by shortening & alter. fr. association football] 
   often attrib  : a football game with 11 players on a side in which a round 
   ball is advan ced by kicking or by propelling it with any part of the body 
   except the hands and arms