Super Bowl

American  

[soo-per bohl] / ˈsu pər ˌboʊl /

Trademark.

1. the annual NFL championship football game between the best team of the National Football Conference and that of the American Football Conference.

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Super Bowl British  

noun

1. American football the main championship game of the sport, held annually in January between the champions of the American Football Conference and the National Football Conference

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Super Bowl Cultural  

1. The championship game of the National Football League, held each year in January or February.

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Etymology

Origin of Super Bowl

First recorded in 1965–70

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Example Sentences

OpenAI seems to be taking a different approach than Anthropic, which released a Super Bowl commercial declaring “Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 10, 2026

The company is responsible for one of the most famous Super Bowl ads of all time, its “1984” commercial that introduced Macintosh computers to millions of viewers.

From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026

An HBO documentary premiering Tuesday night examines “The Super Bowl Shuffle,” the 1985 hip-hop song and music video that will always be associated with the Chicago Bears championship team.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Claude maker Anthropic attacked the company’s ads test in ChatGPT with a Super Bowl commercial that Altman called “funny” but deceptive.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Did you ever hear the statistic about Super Bowl night?

From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King