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English
Etymology
From Gaelic (adjective) + football.
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Gaelic football (uncountable)
- An Irish form of football played by two teams of 15 players each, who score by kicking or punching a ball into the opposing team's goal or over a crossbar and between two upright posts above the goal.
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Gaelic football on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “Gaelic football, n.” under “Gaelic, adj. and n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2022.
- “Gaelic football, n.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.