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Any of the sports that are called football but are played mainly with the hands and…Any of the sports that are called football but are played mainly with the hands and with a prolate spheroid ball; that is, American football and (less often) Canadian, Australian and rugby football (including league and union varieties).
Meaning
2 senses(humorous, slang, uncountable)Any of the sports that are called football but are played mainly with the hands and with a prolate spheroid ball; that is, American football and (less often) Canadian, Australian and rugby football (including league and union varieties).
(countable, humorous, slang)The ball used to play such a game.
Origin
From hand + egg. The jocular implication is that the name football ought to denote using tFrom hand + egg. The jocular implication is that the name football ought to denote using the foot to propel a ball-shaped [i.e. spherical] object, which is the usual case for soccer, as opposed to using the hand to propel an egg-shaped [i.e. spheroid] object.
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Forms
plural: handeggsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
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