Definitions for fouls

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Spelling: [foulz]

IPA: /faʊlz/

Fouls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in fouls (flosu).

Definitions for fouls

noun

1. foot rot.
2. something that is foul.
3. a collision or entanglement:
4. a violation of the rules of a sport or game:
5. Baseball. foul ball.

Idioms

1. fall foul / afoul of, to collide with, as ships. to come into conflict with; quarrel. to make an attack; assault.
2. foul one's nest, to dishonor one's own home, family, or the like.
3. run foul / afoul of, to come into collision or controversy with:

adverb

1. in a foul manner; vilely; unfairly.
2. Baseball. into foul territory; so as to be foul:

adjective

1. grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome:
2. containing or characterized by offensive or noisome matter:
3. filthy or dirty, as places, receptacles, clothes, etc.
4. muddy, as a road.
5. clogged or obstructed with foreign matter:
6. unfavorable or stormy:
7. contrary, violent, or unfavorable, as the wind.
8. grossly offensive in a moral sense.
9. abominable, wicked, or vile, as deeds, crime, slander, etc.
10. scurrilous, profane, or obscene; offensive:
11. contrary to the rules or established usages, as of a sport or game; unfair:
12. Baseball. pertaining to a foul ball or a foul line.
13. limited in freedom of movement by obstruction, entanglement, etc.:
14. abounding in errors or in marks of correction, as a printer's proof, manuscript, or the like.
15. Nautical. (of the underwater portion of a hull) encrusted and impeded with barnacles, seaweed, etc. (of a mooring place) involving inconveniences and dangers, as of colliding with vessels or other objects when swinging with the tide. (of the bottom of a body of water) affording a poor hold for an anchor (opposed to clean).
16. North England and Scot.. not fair; ugly or unattractive.
17. Obsolete. disfigured.

Verb phrases

1. foul out, Baseball. to be put out by hitting a foul ball caught on the fly by a player on the opposing team. Basketball. to be expelled from a game for having committed more fouls than is allowed.
2. foul up, Informal. to cause confusion or disorder; bungle; spoil.

verb (used with object)

1. to make foul; defile; soil.
2. to clog or obstruct, as a chimney or the bore of a gun.
3. to collide with.
4. to cause to become entangled or caught, as a rope.
5. to defile; dishonor; disgrace:
6. Nautical. (of barnacles, seaweed, etc.) to cling to (a hull) so as to encumber.
7. Baseball. to hit (a pitched ball) foul (often followed by off or away):

verb (used without object)

1. to become foul.
2. Nautical. to come into collision, as two boats.
3. to become entangled or clogged:
4. Sports. to make a foul play; give a foul blow.
5. Baseball. to hit a foul ball.

Origin of fouls

foul + -s³

Examples for fouls

Then two fouls were called simultaneously--and both on Dolorez Vincez.

Three fouls on Kings big man Lawrence Funderburke in just six minutes.

In the 2006–07 season, for example, he committed 273 fouls, but scored just 169 points.

After that, two other fouls were called in rapid succession on Pat.

"—fouls the second ball into the screen," the announcer said.

He fouls off two pitches then drives one to the grass just past the infield.

The teams win in the order of finishing if there be no fouls.

There's a vulgar proverb about the bird that fouls its own nest, you know.

There ain't goin' to be no hittin' after the clinch, and if there's any fouls, you leave it to me.

No fouls will be tolerated, and only one blow may be struck in the break-away.