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Compound of paaltje (“little post, little pole”) + -s- + voetbal (“football”).
- IPA(key): /ˈpaːl.tjəsˌfut.bɑl/
- Hyphenation: paal‧tjes‧voet‧bal
paaltjesvoetbal n (uncountable)
- a variant of football in which each player or team has a pin, cone or block that an opponent has to topple with the ball