• 1. any of various games played with a round or oval ball and usually based on two teams competing to kick, head, carry, or otherwise propel the ball into each other's goal, territory, etc - See association football rugby Australian Rules American football Gaelic football
• 2. ( as modifier )
• 3. the ball used in any of these games or their variants
• 4. a problem, issue, etc, that is continually passed from one group or person to another and treated as a pretext for argument instead of being...

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