How to pronounce “handball”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (uncountable) A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.
• (countable) The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
• (countable, soccer) The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
• (uncountable, US, Ireland) A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
• (countable, US) The small rubber ball used in this sport.
• (countable, Australian rules football) An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
• (uncountable, Australia) A schoolyard game in which a tennis ball is struck with the hand, played on an improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.
• (soccer) To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
• (Australian rules football) To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
• (sexuality, slang) To insert a hand into someone's anus.

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