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What (who) is Foul - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Fouls; Foul (disambiguation)
foul
I
adv.
1) see afoul
2) to fall foul of (to fall foul of the law)
II
n.
1) to commit a foul
2) a personal; team; technical foul
III
v. (esp. basketball) (D; intr.) to foul out of (to foul out of a game)
foul
a.
1.
Impure, nasty, squalid, dirty, polluted, filthy, unclean, soiled, tarnished, stained, sullied.
2.
Disgusting, loathsome, offensive, noisome.
3.
Unfair, dishonorable, underhanded, sinister.
4.
Base, scandalous, infamous, vile, wicked, dark, abominable, detestable, disgraceful, shameful, scurvy.
5.
Obscene, vulgar, coarse, low.
6.
Abusive, insulting, scurrilous, foul-mouthed foul-spoken.
7.
Stormy, rainy, cloudy.
8.
Turbid, thick, muddy, feculent.
9.
Entangled, tangled, in collision.
foul
(fouler, foulest, fouls, fouling, fouled)
1.
If you describe something as foul, you mean it is dirty and smells or tastes unpleasant.
...foul polluted water...
The smell was quite foul.
= disgusting
ADJ
2.
Foul language is offensive and contains swear words or rude words.
He was sent off for using foul language in a match last Sunday...
He had a foul mouth.
= filthy
ADJ: usu ADJ n
3.
If someone has a foul temper or is in a foul mood, they become angry or violent very suddenly and easily.
Collins was in a foul mood even before the interviews began.
= bad
ADJ: usu ADJ n
4.
Foul weather is unpleasant, windy, and stormy.
ADJ
5.
If an animal fouls a place, it drops faeces onto the ground.
It is an offence to let your dog foul a footpath.
VERB: V n
6.
In a game or sport, if a player fouls another player, they touch them or block them in a way which is not allowed according to the rules.
Middlesbrough's Jimmy Phillips was sent off for fouling Steve Tilson.
VERB: V n
7.
A foul is an act in a game or sport that is not allowed according to the rules.
He picked up his first booking for a 45th-minute foul on Bull.
N-COUNT: oft N on n
•
Foul is also an adjective.
...a foul tackle.
ADJ: ADJ n
8.
If you fall foul of someone or run foul of them, you do something which gets you into trouble with them. (mainly BRIT)
He had fallen foul of the FBI.
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n
Examples of use of Foul
1. He would beat the other guy, he would say, by "fair means or foul". Foul must often have seemed quicker.
2. The first technical foul Tuesday went to a Spur, Duncan, for reacting badly to an early foul.
3. Nearly all said their team would win a rematch – in other words, foul call or no foul call, they believed that Louisville was simply the better team.
4. Two goals and a foul were made that day, one goal from Gerrard, one from Stern John and a foul from Peter Crouch.
5. By "all accounts and appearances" the chef had "the kind of foul mouth and foul temper those titles suggest", he wrote.