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PERSONAL FOUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does personal foul mean?
• PERSONAL FOUL (noun)
The noun PERSONAL FOUL has 1 sense:
1. a foul that involves unnecessarily rough contact (as in basketball or football)
Familiarity information: PERSONAL FOUL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A foul that involves unnecessarily rough contact (as in basketball or football)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("personal foul" is a kind of...):
foul (an act that violates the rules of a sport)
Domain category:
athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)
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