personal foul in English
noun
1
a rule violation involving illegal contact, as (in basketball) touching a player who is in the act of shooting.
He got one rebound, committed one personal foul , and missed one shot in two minutes.
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1. To knock (a person) over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline. The ref called a personal foul, when he Clotheslined the running back.