I am looking for a word in German that i do not know the meaning of...?

can anyone tell me what this word is in German...i dont have the characters on my english keyboard to produce it but i know the word is pronounced as (foos) i can tell you the characters but i cant show you as i cannot produce the characters on my keyboard but the word looks a little like (FuB) its a capitol F, lower case u, and a funny looking B type symbol that maks the s sound. sorry this looks rather stupid and quite uneducated but this is the best i could do. i dont know anybody that speaks german so this is the best i can do. thanks.