personal foul

1. 1.

   a foul that involves unnecessarily rough contact (as in basketball or football)

   Broaderfoul

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Questions about personal foul

What does personal foul mean?

personal foul means "a foul that involves unnecessarily rough contact (as in basketball or football)".

Is personal foul a common word?

personal foul is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.