Ruck

/ɹʌk/ · noun

Meaning

A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack..

Definitions by Sense

1. A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
2. In Australian rules football
3. (rugby union) The situation formed when a player carrying the ball is brought to the ground and one or more members of each side are engaged above the ball, trying to win possession of it; a loose scrum.
4. The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
5. (colloquial) An argument or fight.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football.
7. (transitive, rugby union) To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
8. (transitive) To crease or fold.

Example Sentences

Dandolo was constantly in the ditch, sometimes lying with his side against the bank, and had now been so hustled and driven that, had he been on the other side, he would have had no breath left to carry his rider, even in the ruck of the hunt.

‘Here and there among cats one comes across an outstanding superior intellect, just as one does among the ruck of human beings [...].’

Your worth as a couple is not down to how passionate your rucks are—I said rucks—and how frantic the making-up sex is.

Puzzle begged very hard to have the lion-skin taken off him. He said it was too hot and the way it was rucked up on his back was uncomfortable […]

"What, exactly, happened down cellar?" Appleyard asked, straightening with his heel a rucked rug.

She wore long dangling earrings faced with mirrors, and white Bermuda shorts rucked back to reveal knees and thighs like waxed maple.

The army had a shooting range up there hidden in the chestnut forests, that was all; like a passing plane rucking the fabric of perfect silence, the shots brought all that shatters continuity in life, the violence of emotions, the trajectories of demands and contests of will.

"Will you come over now and try on your dress?" Ally asked, looking at her with wistful admiration. "I want to be sure the sleeves don't ruck up the same as they did yesterday."

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• rucks
• rucking
• rucked

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