Usually means: Boundary for legal basketball shots.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word foul line:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. foul line: Merriam-Webster
  2. foul line: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. foul line: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. foul line: Vocabulary.com
  5. foul-line: Wordnik
  6. foul line: Wiktionary
  7. foul line: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. foul line: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. foul line: Dictionary.com
  10. Foul line (baseball), Foul line: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. foul line: Rhymezone
  12. foul line: FreeDictionary.org
  13. foul line: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. foul line: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. foul line: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Foul line: Sports Definitions

(Note: See foul_lines as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (foul line)

noun:  (basketball) A line from which a player takes a free throw
noun:  (baseball, softball) One of the two lines on the edge of a field marking the area inside which a fair ball may be hit.
noun:  (bowling) A line between the lane and the approach, which the bowler must not cross.
noun:  (athletics) In long jump, a line before which the jumper must start their jump with no part of the foot touching the line.

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