Meaning

(uncountable) rugby.

Definitions by Sense

1. (uncountable) rugby
2. (US) rugby player

Example Sentences

That . . . . . . may for once put a full Rugger team in the field

Golf is perhaps seven or eight years old in Oxford, ... football, seu Rugger, sive Soccer, not more than sixteen or seventeen.

Rugger (schools), the Rugby game at football

It was clear to me that I was dealing with a lunatic, so I thought it well before I went any further in the matter to call upon my friend Malone, whom I had known since the old days when we both played Rugger for Richmond.

To complete the picture of the main line passenger workings, mention must be made of the excursions for International rugger and soccer matches. [...] For the rugger matches especially, a dozen or so packed trains from West Wales are put on [...]

Some people refer to a Dropped Goal as if it were a misfortune rather than the perfection of football ... Genuine "Ruggers" will, of course, scoff at this

To this day ruggers belittle soccer, and they will tell anyone who expresses the slightest interest in their game that rugby is "a ruffian's game played by gentlemen," while soccer is "a gentleman's game played by ruffians."

When you put sixty ruggers and their friends and lovers in a bar, you've really got something going.

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• ruggers

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When Should You Use Rugger?

Use rugger when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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