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Fool Me Once (TV series)
Fool Me Once is a 2024 British thriller limited series adapted by Danny Brocklehurst from Harlan Coben's novel, starring Michelle Keegan and released on Netflix on January 1, 2024.
Fool's errand
Fool's errand: an English idiom for a hopeless, fruitless task, first printed in 1705 (Edmund Hickeringill), preceded by the older phrase sleeveless errand; also a folklore motif (Thompson J2346) and April Fool's Day prank tradition.
Fool's Gold (2008 film)
Fool's Gold is a 2008 American romantic adventure comedy directed by Andy Tennant, starring Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, and Donald Sutherland, about treasure hunters chasing a lost Spanish galleon.
Fool's Gold (record label)
Fool's Gold Records is a Brooklyn-based independent record label founded in 2007 by DJs A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs, known for breaking Kid Cudi, Duck Sauce, and Danny Brown.
Fool's Gold Loaf
The Fool's Gold Loaf is a Denver sandwich of a hollowed loaf filled with a jar of peanut butter, a jar of jelly, and a pound of bacon, made famous by Elvis Presley's 1976 private-jet trip from Graceland.
Fool's mate
Fool's mate is the fastest possible checkmate in chess, with Black mating White in two moves (1.f3 e5 2.g4 Qh4#) after White's pawn moves open the h4–e1 diagonal; named in chess literature from 1617.
Fool's Paradise (2023 film)
Fool's Paradise (2023) is Charlie Day's directorial debut, a Hollywood satire in which a silent man (Day) is substituted for a movie star and renamed Latte Pronto. Released May 12, 2023 by Roadside Attractions; grossed $868,503 and scored 22% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Fooled Around and Fell in Love
"Fooled Around and Fell in Love" is a 1975 song by blues guitarist Elvin Bishop's band, sung by Mickey Thomas, reaching number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976.
Foolish Wives
Foolish Wives is a 1922 American silent drama written, directed by, and starring Erich von Stroheim as fake Russian count Sergius Karamzin, Universal's advertised first million-dollar movie, set in Monte Carlo and restored to 147 minutes in 2022.
Foolishness for Christ
Foolishness for Christ, or being a fool for Christ, is a Christian ascetic practice of feigning insanity to conceal sanctity and awaken consciences, honored especially in the Orthodox Church.
Fools and Other Stories
Fools and Other Stories is a 1983 collection of five short stories by the South African writer Njabulo S. Ndebele, depicting childhood and township life under apartheid.
Fools Crow
Fools Crow is a 1986 historical novel by Native American writer James Welch, following a young Blackfeet man in Montana as white settlement closes in.
Fools Rush In (1997 film)
Fools Rush In is a 1997 Columbia Pictures romantic comedy directed by Andy Tennant, starring Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek as a couple who marry after an unexpected pregnancy; it grossed $29.3 million domestically and was Perry's favorite of his films.
Foot
Foot: terminal human lower-limb structure with 26 bones, 33 joints, three arches, and a windlass mechanism, evolved from a grasping ape-like organ for bipedal walking.
Foot (unit)
The foot (plural feet) is a unit of length in the British imperial and US customary systems, defined since 1959 as exactly 0.3048 meter and divided into 12 inches.
Foot binding (缠足)
Foot binding (缠足, chansu) was a Han Chinese practice of binding girls' feet from about ages 4 to 8 to create the "three-inch golden lotus," lasting from the Song dynasty to 1949, documented archaeologically from Lady Huang Sheng's tomb and ended through late Qing, Republican, and Communist campaigns.
Foot drop
Foot drop (drop foot): inability to lift the front of the foot, usually from peroneal nerve injury or L5 radiculopathy; managed with AFOs, functional electrical stimulation, physiotherapy, and tendon transfer surgery.
Foot fetishism
Foot fetishism, also called foot worship or podophilia, is a sexual interest focused on feet, one of the most common fetishes directed at a non-genital body part.
Foot Locker
Foot Locker, Inc. is an American athletic footwear and apparel retailer founded in 1974 by Kinney Shoe Corp. under Woolworth, with about 2,400 stores in 20 countries; acquired by DICK'S Sporting Goods, closing September 8, 2025.
Foot odor
Foot odor (bromodosis) is body odor from bacteria metabolizing sweat on the feet, chiefly isovaleric acid from leucine degraded by Staphylococcus epidermidis; hyperhidrosis, fungi, and pitted keratolysis worsen it.
Foot Orthoses
Foot orthoses (orthotics) are in-shoe devices, prefabricated or custom-made, used for foot pain, flatfoot, heel pain, and arthritis; they modestly reduce rearfoot motion and impact forces, with custom devices showing no clear advantage over prefabricated ones.
Foot placement estimator
The foot placement estimator (FPE) is a measure of balance for bipedal robots that computes where the swing foot must step to stop a fall.
Foot rotation indicator
The foot rotation indicator (FRI) point is a stability criterion for biped robots: a point that may leave the support polygon, indicating impending foot rotation. It was introduced by Ambarish Goswami in 1999.
Foot switch
A foot switch is a pedal-actuated electrical switch that starts, stops, or modulates a machine by foot, used on sewing machines, medical equipment, and guitar amplifiers.
Foot washing
Foot washing is the cleansing of another person's feet as an act of hospitality, humility, or religious observance, rooted in the ancient Near East and still a rite in Christian traditions.
Foot whipping
Foot whipping, also called falaka, falanga, or bastinado, is the beating of a person's bare foot soles with a rod or lash, used as punishment and torture, prohibited under international law, and documented in Middle Eastern detention systems.
Foot-and-mouth disease
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD, aphthovirus) is a highly contagious viral disease of cloven-hoofed livestock with seven serotypes (A, O, C, SAT1–3, Asia1), causing blisters, high morbidity, low mortality, major trade losses, and no human health risk.
Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus
Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), an Aphthovirus of Picornaviridae, is the first-discovered animal virus (Loeffler and Frosch, 1897); it infects cloven-hoofed livestock in seven serotypes (A, O, C, SAT1-3, Asia1) with no cross-protection between them.
Foot-pound (energy)
The foot-pound (ft·lbf), also written foot pound-force, is a British imperial and US customary unit of energy, defined as the work of one pound-force over one foot.
Foot-skin M&M trial
Foot-skin M&M (NCT04781036) is a Mahidol University randomized, open-label trial of foot-skin microbiome (16S) and sock metabolomics (GC-MS) in 250 Thai naval cadets with pitted keratolysis, treated with 4% chlorhexidine for 2 weeks.