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All of those American terms would be well understood in the UK and many are taking over from the British usage anyway. With US films and TV shows having been shown for so long it's hardly surprising.
There is movement in the other direction too, with many British and Australian terms in common usage in the US. Again mainly through film and TV imports and sometimes changed slightly. Like say the word wanker. That's a mild insult in the US, but it's not something you would call someone you didn't know well in the UK or Ireland unless you wanted to fight him.
There are a lot of American imported words which I really don't like, but the one I detest most is not American at all but an English slang word soccer. It was invented by Victorian university sportsmen to differentiate the game of rugby football which is mostly a handling game, from the game played with the feet since both laid claim to being called football. The games were called rugger and footer in contemporary slang terms. So association football to give it its correct name, started to get called assoch by rugby types, then asoc, and finally soccer.
There are a lot of types of football in the world so in countries like the US and Australia where they call their mostly handball versions football, the name soccer took off. As it already had with middle class rugby and cricket followers in the UK in a slightly derogatory way. Most of the world does call it football though. Or versions of it like fusbal, or fotbal or some such, and no British football fan would let the word the word soccer pass his lips.
There is movement in the other direction too, with many British and Australian terms in common usage in the US. Again mainly through film and TV imports and sometimes changed slightly. Like say the word wanker. That's a mild insult in the US, but it's not something you would call someone you didn't know well in the UK or Ireland unless you wanted to fight him.
There are a lot of American imported words which I really don't like, but the one I detest most is not American at all but an English slang word soccer. It was invented by Victorian university sportsmen to differentiate the game of rugby football which is mostly a handling game, from the game played with the feet since both laid claim to being called football. The games were called rugger and footer in contemporary slang terms. So association football to give it its correct name, started to get called assoch by rugby types, then asoc, and finally soccer.
There are a lot of types of football in the world so in countries like the US and Australia where they call their mostly handball versions football, the name soccer took off. As it already had with middle class rugby and cricket followers in the UK in a slightly derogatory way. Most of the world does call it football though. Or versions of it like fusbal, or fotbal or some such, and no British football fan would let the word the word soccer pass his lips.