🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

फाoul आउट

Native Script:फाउल आउट

Pronunciation / Transliteration: foul-out

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Foul-out/ˈfaʊl.aʊt/
nounverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"मैच के दौरान फाउल आउट होने के कारण उसे बाहर बैठना पड़ा।"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An instance of a player being forced to leave a game after committing a maximum allowed number of fouls.

    "His early foul-out left the team defensively vulnerable in the final quarter."
As verb
  1. 1

    To be disqualified from a game due to accumulating the maximum permitted number of personal fouls.

    "The star center had to foul out with two minutes left on the clock."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'foul', derived from Old English 'fūl' meaning dirty or corrupt, with the directional adverb 'out'. It emerged in late 19th-century American sports culture, specifically basketball and baseball, to describe the penalty phase where a player exceeds the allowable limit of infractions.

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