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  2. List of national sports teams of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    National sports teams of the United Kingdom is an incomplete list of sports teams representing the United Kingdom.The teams are often referred to as 'Great Britain' as they represent the United Kingdom minus Northern Ireland, the residents of which often able to choose to play for either Ireland or the UK.

  3. Team GB - Wikipedia

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    The Team GB branding has been credited with creating a 'team feel', and direct comparisons were made of the performance at the 1996 Olympic Games in which the BOA's representatives won one gold medal, and the 2000 games where Great Britain and Northern Ireland performed under the Team GB name and returned with eleven gold medals.

  4. List of football matches between British national teams

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    This team participated in both the qualifying and final Olympic tournaments, as well as in preparatory games leading up to the competition. Some of these games, which served as trial games for players, were played against other British national teams, while the Great Britain team also played a handful of friendlies against national teams that ...

  5. Glossary of names for the British - Wikipedia

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    The Chinese Dàbùlièdiān (Hanzi: 大不列颠) is used for historical purposes to mean 'Great Britain'. The first character means 'Great' and the other three have unrelated meanings, having been selected for the sound instead of meaning. In Chinese, yīngjílì (Simplified characters: 英吉利), a transliteration of English, is also used to ...

  6. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a large container (often earthenware), usually round with a narrow neck, used for holding water or another liquid [54] (US: jug) any container with a handle and lip or spout for liquids* (UK: jug) baseball player who pitches (throws) baseball towards the batter (UK: bowler) (LGBT slang, from baseball) a top or dominant partner pitman

  7. United Kingdom national football team - Wikipedia

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    The United Kingdom national football team are a football team that represents the United Kingdom.Despite football being the most popular sport in the country, the team has not played since 1965, as separate teams represent each home nation (England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland) in all major international football tournaments such as the FIFA World Cup and UEFA European Championship ...

  8. Great Britain football team - Wikipedia

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    This article lists all Great Britain national teams who play a code of football: United Kingdom national football team; Great Britain men's Olympic football team; Great Britain women's Olympic football team; Great Britain national rugby league team; Great Britain women's national rugby league team; Great Britain women's national rugby union team

  9. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    (v.) to sabotage, attempt to hinder in some way. E.g. "Danny nobbled my chances at the pub quiz by getting Gary to defect to his team." nonce a slang term for a sex offender, especially one convicted of sexual offences against children. [118] [10] [119] The supposed origin from the term "Not on normal courtyard exercise" [120] is probably a ...