Meaning

4 senses
  1. A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.

  2. A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.

  3. A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.

    Jones hit a foul up over the screen.

    Foul, Regelverstoß

    фолfol

  4. A tangle or entanglement.

More definitions
  • an act that violates the rules of a sport

Examples

112 sentences
  1. There's no sign of foul play.

  2. There's no evidence of foul play.

  3. Tom is in a foul mood.

    ruТом в плохом настроении. — marafon

    deTom hat schlechte Laune. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Please watch out for foul balls.

  5. Tom is in a foul mood today.

    ruТом сегодня в плохом настроении. — odexed

    deTom hat heute schlechte Laune. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
offence in sports:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
offence in sports:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English foulen, fulen, from Old English fūlian (“to become foul; rot

Inherited from Middle English foulen, fulen, from Old English fūlian (“to become foul; rot; decay”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūlēn, from Proto-Germanic *fūlāną (“to rot; decay”).

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