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Word: ruck
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
- archaic A fight, a scuffle.
- Australian Rules Football Contesting a bounce or ball up; used appositionally in "ruck contest". Rucks also used collectively either of ruckmen or of ruckmen and ruck rovers, and occasionally used in place of "followers" (including rovers too).
- obsolete A rapidly moving throng or mob; a pack of people actively engaged in something.
- obsolete The commonplace; the lower social classes.
- rugby union The situation formed when a runner is brought to ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
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Verb:
- intransitive To become folded.
- obsolete|transitive To act as a ruckman in a stoppage in Australian Rules football.
- transitive To crease or fold.
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