"footballist" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "football + -ist",
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  "etymology_text": "football + -ist",
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      "form": "footballists",
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        {
          "ref": "1903, The Kappa Alpha Journal, volume 21, page 588",
          "text": "But that jolly crowd, composed mostly of athletes and footballists, had little mind for the serious affairs of life, and nothing was done.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1905, Board of Trade Journal, volume 18, page 436",
          "text": "9 Lisbon street is headquarters for the footballists for both field and street attire.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1913, American Medicine, volume 19, page 773",
          "text": "Anyhow, hunters are a brave lot of men to face such large chances of death, as brave as beefy footballists.",
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        "A football player."
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        [
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) A football player."
      ],
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  "word": "footballist"
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        "2": "football",
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      "expansion": "football + -ist",
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  "etymology_text": "football + -ist",
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    {
      "form": "footballists",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1903, The Kappa Alpha Journal, volume 21, page 588",
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        },
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          "text": "9 Lisbon street is headquarters for the footballists for both field and street attire.",
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          "text": "Anyhow, hunters are a brave lot of men to face such large chances of death, as brave as beefy footballists.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A football player."
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        "(dated) A football player."
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  "word": "footballist"
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