Definition of Professional football

1. Noun. Football played for pay.

Generic synonyms: Sport, Football, Football Game
Category relationships: Football, Football Game

Lexicographical Neighbors of Professional Football

profess
professed
professed(a)
professedly
professes
professing
profession
professional
professional baseball
professional basketball
professional boxing
professional dancer
professional football (current term)
professional foul
professional golf
professional golfer
professional life
professional organisation
professional organization
professional person
professional politician
professional politicians
professional relation
professional sport
professional tennis
professional tennis player
professional wrestler

Literary usage of Professional football

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1896)
"... of the professional football player will most heartily endorse what I have said to-day, that this is one of the evils of professional football playing. ..."

2. Professional Sports: The Challenges Facing the Future of the Industry (1998)
"Why, with all the affluence of professional football, it ends up as an obligation of the taxpayers. Mr. TAGLIABUE. Well, the short answer is because we are ..."

3. Professional Sports: The Challenges Facing the Future of the Industry (1998)
"Why, with all the affluence of professional football, it ends up as an obligation of the taxpayers. Senator SPECTER. ..."

4. Winning Football by William Winston Roper (1921)
"lie with the professional, and yet not only is professional football duller to watch for even a man like me, closely and technically interested in every ..."

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