Usually means: Violation of rules in sports.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. foul: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. foul: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foul: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foul: Collins English Dictionary
  5. foul: Vocabulary.com
  6. Foul, foul: Wordnik
  7. foul: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. foul: Wiktionary
  9. foul: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. foul: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. foul: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Foul, foul: Dictionary.com
  13. foul (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. foul: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Foul (association football), Foul (basketball), Foul (disambiguation), Foul (fanzine), Foul (nautical), Foul (sports), Foul: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Foul: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. foul: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. foul: Rhymezone
  19. Foul (nt), foul: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. foul: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. foul: Free Dictionary
  22. foul: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. foul: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. foul: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foul: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. foul: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. foul: Sound Alike Words
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. foul: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. foul: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. foul, foul: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. foul: Urban Dictionary

Sports (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  3. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  5. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Foul: Poker Terms
  7. Foul: Sports Definitions

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coffee Terminology (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Foul: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
adjective:  (of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
adjective:  Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
adjective:  Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
adjective:  (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
adjective:  Unpleasant, stormy or rainy. (of the weather)
adjective:  Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
adjective:  (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
adjective:  (technical) (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
adjective:  (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
verb:  (transitive) To make dirty.
verb:  (transitive) To besmirch.
verb:  (transitive) To clog or obstruct.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
verb:  (transitive, basketball, soccer) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
verb:  (intransitive, basketball, soccer) To commit a foul.
verb:  (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
verb:  (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
verb:  (intransitive) To become clogged.
verb:  (intransitive) To become entangled.
verb:  To come into contact or collide with.
noun:  (sports) 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.
noun:  (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
noun:  (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.

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