terrorist ball

noun

A highly defensive style of football, seen as uninteresting or frustrating to watch.

“Near-synonyms: parking the bus, catenaccio”

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Meanings

nounterrorist ball (uncountable)
  1. derogatoryslanguncountableball gamesA highly defensive style of football, seen as uninteresting or frustrating to watch.

    Near-synonyms: parking the bus, catenaccio

    1 more example

    The amount of tickets left for tomorrow is crazy, as is the amount that have been returned. Looks like not many can be bothered to shell out money watching the dinosaur's terrorist ball. Who can blame them? #nffc

    2026 January 29, Big spending Nottingham Forest (@4evaNFFC), “Big spending Nottingham Forest on Twitter”, in Twitter

    Synonyms: anti-football, haramball, parking the bus, catenaccio

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA highly defensive style of football, seen as uninteresting or frustrating to watch.

Similar
anti-footballharamballparking the buscatenaccio
Also see
anti-footballharamballterrorism ball
Cite this entry
APA

terrorist ball. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/terrorist%20ball

MLA

“terrorist ball.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/terrorist%20ball. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “terrorist ball,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/terrorist%20ball.

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