"footballify" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: footballifies [present, singular, third-person], footballifying [participle, present], footballified [participle, past], footballified [past]
Etymology: football + -ify Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|football|ify}} football + -ify Head templates: {{en-verb}} footballify (third-person singular simple present footballifies, present participle footballifying, simple past and past participle footballified)
  1. To make more like or about a game of football.
    Sense id: en-footballify-en-verb-jas4L~s5
  2. To make more like or about a game of football.
    To make into a contest between two teams where group loyalty is more important than anything else.
    Sense id: en-footballify-en-verb-20hAMGz8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ify Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 96 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ify: 20 80
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: footballification

Inflected forms

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