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

Its viral Super Bowl commercials targeted ChatGPT’s introduction of chatbot ads, which at some point merged with a more organic Instagram and TikTok movement about how ChatGPT was a sycophant.

From Slate • Apr. 14, 2026

A one-two punch of the Olympics and the Super Bowl helped NBC rise to the top spot, ending YouTube’s 12-month run as the No. 1 media company by viewership.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Shakira, who was born and raised in Colombia and has Lebanese roots, previously made headlines in 2020 for letting out a zaghrouta during the Super Bowl LIV halftime show.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026

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

I could imagine people bundling up and waiting to hear a band whose every lyric they could sing or enduring a snowy Super Bowl for a team they'd followed since childhood.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama