footballer

IPA: fˈʊtbɔɫɝ

(soccer, UK) One who plays association football.
(Australia) Any fish in the kyphosid subfamily Microcanthinae, so named for the resemblance of their stripes to football uniforms.

Examples of "footballer" in Sentences

Leixlip wanted to remember Matt Goff, a famous footballer from the 1920s, by naming a bridge after him.
On the next page young footballer is in the tub with the lines, "Dunk me in the tub, please, for green kid tea!"
Britain's worst-kept secret is no more after Ryan Giggs is identified as the footballer we've been reading about on Twitter.
Remic's new book BIOHELL is due out November 2008, and is about what happens when vanity nano-technology goes horribly wrong, and turns a full planet of vain footballer's wives into quite horrific zombies.
• A comment piece yesterday about the departure of Andy Gray from Sky Sports incorrectly stated that Richard Keys quizzed Jamie Redknapp about a woman called Louise, whom it labelled the footballer's "wife".
Remic's latest book BIOHELL has just been published the U.S. by Solaris Books, and is about what happens when vanity nano-technology goes horribly wrong, and turns a full planet of vain footballer's wives into quite horrific zombies.
And I don't mean staring at their own gorgeous reflection in the mirror. brought to my joyously watering eyes by TheNextWeb, revealed that 20 percent of Brits questioned thought Steve Jobs was what they call a footballer and what Americans sweetly describe as a soccer player.