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association football

soccer: so called from the Football Association established in England (1863) to set up rules for the game

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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