ruck

Ruck can refer to a contest for possession in different forms of football.Ruck (rugby union) - contesting for the ball in Rugby Union from a grounded playerRuck (Australian rules football) - aerial contest in Australian rules football between rival ruckmen at a bounce in the centre of the ground or ball-up around the ground.Ruck is also English working-class slang for a fight, derived from 'ruckus' and possibly also from the earlier meaning of 'ruck' - an unruly crowd or throng of the ordinary masses of the people.
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Noun
1. a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things; "his brilliance raised him above the ruck"; "the children resembled a fairy herd"
(synonym) herd
(hypernym) multitude, throng, concourse
2. an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
(synonym) pucker
(hypernym) fold, crease, plication, flexure, crimp, bend
(derivation) pucker, ruck up
Verb
1. become wrinkled or drawn together; "her lips puckered"
(synonym) pucker, ruck up
(hypernym) wrinkle, ruckle, crease, crinkle, scrunch, scrunch up, crisp
(derivation) pucker

n. jerk, jolt, tug, pulling, yank, grabbing and drawing toward, shaking, sudden blow, sudden pull

interj. forward!

v. jerk, push or pull suddenly; move or cause to move in a sharp an sudden manner

v. move, shift, transfer from one person or place to another, push, act of shoving or thrusting, shove, thrust

(v. t.)
A wrinkle or crease in a piece of cloth, or in needlework.
  

(v. t. & i.)
To draw into wrinkles or unsightly folds; to crease; as, to ruck up a carpet.
  

(v. i.)
To cower; to huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
  

(n.)
The common sort, whether persons or things; as, the ruck in a horse race.
  

(n.)
A roc.
  

(n.)
A heap; a rick.
  

Synonyms and related words:
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