any of various forms of team game involving kicking (and in some cases also handling) a ball, in particular (in the UK) soccer or (in the US) American feetball.
To be assigned a task or forced into a situation where you have absolutely no idea what you are doing, usually where your instructions are extremely vague and/or are about a topic that you have no experience with, then try your best to do it by simply making it up as you go and winging it. Born from a typo during a game of NYT Strands.
“My boss told me to ‘realign the synergetic catalytsts’ using our EMOmachine. I’m just going to set the feerza and see what happens.”