American football
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
American football
▶noun a kind of football played with an oval ball by teams of eleven players, on a field marked out as a gridiron.
'American football' also found in these Oxford entries:
backfield
- blitz
- bowl
- broken field
- Canadian football
- carry
- conversion
- convert
- cornerback
- down
- end
- end run
- end zone
- field goal
- first down
- flanker
- football
- free safety
- gridder
- gridiron
- guard
- handoff
- huddle
- keeper
- lateral
- line
- linebacker
- lineman
- minor
- nose guard
- nose tackle
- off-tackle
- outrush
- pitchout
- place
- place kick
- playbook
- pocket
- punt
- punter
- QB
- quarterback
- receiver
- red zone
- return
- reverse
- roll-out
- running back
- rush
