foosball
noun
US and Canadian a game, often played in bars, in which opponents on either side of a purpose-built table attempt to strike a ball into the other side's goal by moving horizontal bars to which miniatures of footballers are attachedAlso called (esp in Britain): table football
Nearby words
- foolishly,
- foolproof,
- fools rush in where angels fear to tread,
- fools, feast of,
- foolscap,
- foot,
- foot brake,
- foot doctor,
- foot drop,
- foot fault
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Examples from the Web for foosball
We arrived to the din of a party in full swing: a band, multiple kegs of beer, dancing, foosball, and mantle diving.
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foosball
debuted in U.S. 1963 and was a craze on some college campuses for a few years thereafter. Said to have been designed c.1930s in Switzerland. The name is presumably from the pronunciation of Fußball, the German form of (Association) football.
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