a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays | the act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner |
| (American football) an attempt to advance the ball by running into the line |
| a sudden forceful flow |
| a sudden burst of activity |
| the swift release of a store of affective force |
| grasslike plants growing in wet places and having cylindrical often hollow stems |