Ruck

Quick meaning: Ruck is a noun meaning A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. In Australian rules football
2. The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
3. (colloquial) An argument or fight.
4. (transitive, rugby union) To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
5. (transitive) To crease or fold.
6. (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.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football.

Example Sentences

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

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.

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

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

Word Forms

• rucks
• rucking
• rucked

Synonyms for ruck

Depending on context, synonyms include pucker, herd.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pucker, herd, slew, wrinkle, sack, sacks.

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