ruck

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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)
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
To become folded
To act as a ruckman in a stoppage in Australian Rules football
The commonplace; the lower social classes
A fight, a scuffle
A rapidly moving throng or mob; a pack of people actively engaged in something
To crease or fold
A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric
A heap; a rick
To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs
become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered"
To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet
A roc
The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race
In the sport of rugby, a ruck is a situation where a group of players struggle for possession of the ball. ruck up if a piece of cloth rucks up, or if you ruck it up, it forms folds in an untidy way ruck sth⇔up
an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework
The situation formed when a runner is brought to ground and one or more members of each side are enagaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum
a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things; "his brilliance raised him above the ruck"; "the children resembled a fairy herd"
a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things; "his brilliance raised him above the ruck"; "the children resembled a fairy herd
A ruck is a situation where a group of people are fighting or struggling. There'll be a huge ruck with the cops as they try to take photographs = scrap
ruck rover
position in Australian rules football, one of three followers, formerly a secondary ruckman, now an athletic player generally taller than a rover
ruck rovers
plural form of ruck rover
Ruck.
loose scrum
rucked
past of ruck
rucking
present participle of ruck
rucks
third-person singular of ruck
ruck
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