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noun rʌkrək 1Rugby
A loose scrum formed around a player with the ball on the ground. players will be encouraged to go to the ground when tackled to form a ruck Compare with maul Example sentencesExamples - Blind side flanker Dan Blenkharn picked the ball up from a ruck and sliced his way through the entire back line to score under the posts for an unconverted try.
- Suddenly his side looked faster, hit harder, broke more often and crucially, for a five-minute spell, retained ball at the ruck.
- After 23 minutes Naas suffered a blow when prop Emmet Dalton was given a yellow card and sin-binned for ten minutes for killing a ball in a ruck after the referee had warned both captains.
- Vickery is the man in trouble for illegally handling the ball in a ruck.
- Harrogate's forwards won the ruck and the ball was quickly transferred across the backs for left wing Tapster to finish the move with an unconverted try.
- Luke Meldrum found plenty of ball in the rucks, while Travis Eddie is in good form, finding space on the wings.
- Ospreys scrum-half Jason Spice moved the ball from a ruck and Henson put fellow centre Sonny Parker in for the opening try of the game.
- Selby hit back instantly when they worked their way down field from their own line and earned a penalty in front of the posts when a Malton hand was adjudged to have helped the ball back in a ruck.
- The visitors stuck to their task and after a series of rucks and mauls the ball was switched to the blindside for Toby Pemberton to drive over.
- It was a very scrappy affair due to both teams being guilty of slowing down the ball at the ruck, an offence that the referee did not penalise often enough.
- 1.1Australian Rules Football A group of three players who follow the play without fixed positions.
2A tightly packed crowd of people. Harry squeezed through the ruck to order another pint Synonyms haystack, rick, hayrick, stook, mow, haymow, barleymow - 2.1the ruck The mass of ordinary people or things.
education was the key to success, a way out of the ruck Example sentencesExamples - The trouble with all elect brotherhoods is that they tend to place themselves above the ruck of mankind.
verb rʌk [no object]Rugby Australian Rules Football Take part in a ruck. too often the pack failed to ruck as a unit in the games so far the pack has mixed its rucking and mauling well Example sentencesExamples - Tullamore were scrummaging better and their rucking was top class.
- This season, Jim Telfer has been lending his experience and infectious fervour and pugnacity to Scotland's rucking and mauling and at times there did seem more of the dynamic impact of bygone days.
- The pack were excellent throughout, controlling the scrum and line-outs and aggressively rucking and mauling.
- The forwards rucked and mauled to near perfection although they did not dominate the line-out like they can do.
- Enniscorthy rucked and mauled up field and they were awarded another penalty in the 60th minute when Port strayed offside.
- They worked tirelessly as a unit and their ball retention, rucking and tackling were almost faultless.
- With an all new control system that is intuitive and user friendly, players will be rucking, mauling, and kicking like champions in no time.
- Kendal's pack, missing some key men among six absent first-team regulars, suffered in the set scrummage but rucked and mauled well.
- Bury laid siege to the Kirby Lonsdale 22 for the first ten minutes and having won three successive line-outs should have kept the ball tight in the forwards and rucked and mauled their way to the line.
- They have a very good pack which rucks well, and have a good defence too, so we'll have to be on top of our game to put them away.
Origin Middle English (in the sense 'stack of fuel, heap'): apparently of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian ruke 'heap of hay'. Rhymes buck, Canuck, chuck, cluck, cruck, duck, luck, muck, pluck, puck, schmuck, shuck, struck, stuck, suck, truck, tuck, upchuck, yuck verb rʌkrək [with object]1Compress or move (cloth or clothing) so that it forms a number of untidy folds or creases. Example sentencesExamples - Their guest made a loud scoffing noise and stood up, violently pushing back his chair so that it rucked up the carpet.
- I twisted to try and knock her hands away and ended up wincing as skin pulled and she pushed me back, rucked my shirt up a bit higher.
Synonyms scrunch up, wrinkle, crinkle, cockle, crumple, rumple, pucker, corrugate, ruffle, screw up, crease, shrivel, furrow, crimp, gather, draw, tuck, pleat British rare ruckle - 1.1no object (of cloth or clothing) form rucks.
Eleanor's dress rucked up at the front Example sentencesExamples - The dress rucks up under the arms because the back strap has been attached to the wrong part of the dress.
- The fabric is rucking up a little and not making a graceful curve because I haven't trimmed all the seams inside yet.
noun rʌkrək A crease or wrinkle. Synonyms fold, groove, ridge, furrow, line, pleat, tuck, corrugation
Origin Late 18th century (as a noun): from Old Norse hrukka. noun rʌkrək British informal A quarrel or fight, especially a brawl involving several people. there was a rare old ruck before the police arrived Example sentencesExamples - The award, a virtual passport to fame and fortune, can usually be relied on to bring out the worst in the male-dominated world of stand-up, including a ruck at the party in the early hours of Sunday when the winner is announced.
- We experienced that the Germans have a strange tendency to bump into people, which no one seemed to mind, however had this happened in a club back in England, it would certainly have lead to a ruck.
Synonyms disturbance, quarrel, scuffle, brawl, affray, tussle, melee, free-for-all, fight, clash, skirmish, brouhaha, riot, uproar, commotion
verb rʌk [no object]British informal Engage in a ruck. with no money and nothing to do, they started rucking
Origin 1950s: perhaps a shortened form of ruction or ruckus. noun rʌkrək US informal A rucksack. I barely had time to repack my ruck Example sentencesExamples - Despite multiple layers of plastic bags, everything in my ruck has its dusting of grime.
- This includes a timed run and ruck marches over the hills.
- Members of the unit are required to complete the 10K ruck march with 55 pounds of weight in their rucksack.
- With his back thanking him for removing the ruck, Delgado slowly patrolled past his teammates.
- Jumping with a ruck attached is just the beginning of the special instruction military free fall school teaches.
- Fortunately he had grabbed his ruck before rushing out and he had his cooking pot, but he was still forced to hunt for food.
- Each soldier carried a rifle, along with a ruck, during the training, so the training basically replicated the mission the soldiers would be conducting.
- Everything I will have has been shoved into a ruck and a duffle.
- I've got my gear cranked down in a ruck and a duffle.
- Cremeans yanked his ‘hoop bivey’ [one-man tent] from his ruck and set it up.
nounrəkrək 1A tightly packed crowd of people. Harry squeezed through the ruck to order another beer Synonyms haystack, rick, hayrick, stook, mow, haymow, barleymow - 1.1the ruck The mass of ordinary people or things.
education was the key to success, a way out of the ruck Example sentencesExamples - When reviewing a career and analysing why someone has been successful, it is normal that you come across a few attributes that make them stand out above the ruck.
Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘stack of fuel, heap’): apparently of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian ruke ‘heap of hay’. verbrəkrək [with object]1Compress or move (cloth or clothing) so that it forms a number of untidy folds or creases. the baby's nightgown was rucked up to his armpits Example sentencesExamples - Their guest made a loud scoffing noise and stood up, violently pushing back his chair so that it rucked up the carpet.
- I twisted to try and knock her hands away and ended up wincing as skin pulled and she pushed me back, rucked my shirt up a bit higher.
Synonyms scrunch up, wrinkle, crinkle, cockle, crumple, rumple, pucker, corrugate, ruffle, screw up, crease, shrivel, furrow, crimp, gather, draw, tuck, pleat - 1.1no object (of cloth or clothing) form rucks.
Eleanor's dress rucked up at the front Example sentencesExamples - The dress rucks up under the arms because the back strap has been attached to the wrong part of the dress.
- The fabric is rucking up a little and not making a graceful curve because I haven't trimmed all the seams inside yet.
nounrəkrək A crease or wrinkle. Synonyms fold, groove, ridge, furrow, line, pleat, tuck, corrugation
Origin Late 18th century (as a noun): from Old Norse hrukka. nounrəkrək US informal A rucksack. I barely had time to repack my ruck Example sentencesExamples - Members of the unit are required to complete the 10K ruck march with 55 pounds of weight in their rucksack.
- Each soldier carried a rifle, along with a ruck, during the training, so the training basically replicated the mission the soldiers would be conducting.
- Despite multiple layers of plastic bags, everything in my ruck has its dusting of grime.
- Everything I will have has been shoved into a ruck and a duffle.
- Jumping with a ruck attached is just the beginning of the special instruction military free fall school teaches.
- This includes a timed run and ruck marches over the hills.
- I've got my gear cranked down in a ruck and a duffle.
- Cremeans yanked his ‘hoop bivey’ [one-man tent] from his ruck and set it up.
- With his back thanking him for removing the ruck, Delgado slowly patrolled past his teammates.
- Fortunately he had grabbed his ruck before rushing out and he had his cooking pot, but he was still forced to hunt for food.
nounrəkrək British informal A quarrel or fight, especially a brawl involving several people. there was a rare old ruck before the police arrived Example sentencesExamples - The award, a virtual passport to fame and fortune, can usually be relied on to bring out the worst in the male-dominated world of stand-up, including a ruck at the party in the early hours of Sunday when the winner is announced.
- We experienced that the Germans have a strange tendency to bump into people, which no one seemed to mind, however had this happened in a club back in England, it would certainly have lead to a ruck.
Synonyms disturbance, quarrel, scuffle, brawl, affray, tussle, melee, free-for-all, fight, clash, skirmish, brouhaha, riot, uproar, commotion
verbrəkrək [no object]British informal Engage in a ruck. with no money and nothing to do, they started rucking
Origin 1950s: perhaps a shortened form of ruction or ruckus. |