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What (who) is afoul - definition
afoul
If you run afoul of someone or something, you do something which causes problems with them. (AM)
All of them had run afoul of the law at some time or other.
= fall foul of
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR n
Afoul
·adv & ·adj In collision; entangled.
afoul
¦ adverb N. Amer. into conflict or difficulty with.
Examples of use of afoul
1. This happens all too often when individuals run afoul of high–ranking officials. «
2. Government can run afoul of that prohibition in two principal ways.
3. Those who fall afoul of the regime and its energy champions tend to suffer.
4. The most charitable explanation was that it ran afoul of its free–market ideology.
5. Their cousins _ children of Bush‘s brother Jeb, Florida‘s governor _ have run afoul of the law, too.