beautiful game en · NOUN
Etymology
Calque of Portuguese jogo bonito.
Meanings
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(capitalized, sometimes) Association football; soccer.
After watching Saturday's final, don't you agree that soccer is still the beautiful game that Pelé called it?
1990 December 18, Fauzi Omar, “Cheers to Kedah But Not At All to Fifa”, in New Straits Times, Malaysia, page 32:Amid all the fevered anticipation of this fixture, few would have expected to witness an aesthetically pleasing example of the beautiful game.
2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:
- (Canada) Ice hockey.
Forms
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| the beautiful game | canonical | lexicographic |