Usually means: Violations of rules in sports.
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  1. fouls: Merriam-Webster
  2. fouls: Collins English Dictionary
  3. fouls: Vocabulary.com
  4. Fouls, foul's, fouls: Wordnik
  5. fouls: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. fouls: Wiktionary
  7. fouls: Dictionary.com
  8. fouls: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. fouls: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. fouls: Legal dictionary

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  1. fouls: Encyclopedia

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  1. fouls: Medical dictionary

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  1. fouls: Idioms

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  1. Fouls: Sports Definitions

(Note: See foul as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (foul)

adjective:  Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty.
adjective:  (of words or a way of speaking) Obscene, vulgar or abusive.
adjective:  Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome.
adjective:  Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust.
adjective:  (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor.
adjective:  Unpleasant, stormy or rainy. (of the weather)
adjective:  Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.
adjective:  (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear.
adjective:  (technical) (with "of") Positioned on, in, or near enough to (a specified area) so as to obstruct it.
adjective:  (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory.
verb:  (transitive) To make dirty.
verb:  (transitive) To besmirch.
verb:  (transitive) To clog or obstruct.
verb:  (transitive, nautical) To entangle.
verb:  (transitive, basketball, soccer) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage.
verb:  (intransitive, basketball, soccer) To commit a foul.
verb:  (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines.
verb:  (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines.
verb:  (intransitive) To become clogged.
verb:  (intransitive) To become entangled.
verb:  To come into contact or collide with.
noun:  (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball.
noun:  (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
noun:  (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines.
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