soccer
Meanings
Noun
- a football game in which two teams of 11 players try to kick or head a ball into the opponents' goal
- Association football.
Verb
- To kick the football directly off the ground, without using one's hands.
Origin / 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.
Compare contemporary rugger, from Rugby. Similarly constructed coinages from the same period include: brekker (“breakfast”), fresher (“freshman”) and footer (“football”). See Oxford -er.
Synonyms
AFL, American football, association football, Aussie rules, ball, Canadian football, football, footer, footie, footy, gridiron, gridiron football, league, pigskin, pill, rugby ball, soccer, soccer ball, soccer football, VFL, wogball
Scrabble Score: 10
soccer is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordsoccer is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
soccer is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary