Usually means: In conflict, against, or entangled.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. afoul: Merriam-Webster
  2. afoul: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. afoul: Collins English Dictionary
  4. afoul: Vocabulary.com
  5. Afoul, afoul: Wordnik
  6. afoul: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. afoul: Wiktionary
  8. afoul: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. afoul: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. afoul: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Afoul, afoul: Dictionary.com
  12. afoul: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. afoul: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Afoul: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. afoul: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Afoul: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. afoul: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. afoul: FreeDictionary.org
  19. afoul: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. afoul: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. afoul: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  22. afoul: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. afoul: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. afoul: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (afoul)

adverb:  (archaic, principally nautical) In a state of collision or entanglement.
adverb:  (with of) In a state of entanglement or conflict (with).

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