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noun/rʌk/
/rʌk/
- [countable] (in rugby) a group of players who gather round the ball when it is lying on the ground and push each other in order to get the ballTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
- [singular] a group of people standing closely together or fighting
- He pushed his way through the ruck of drinkers to get to the bar.
- When the police arrived, it soon turned into an ugly ruck.
- the ruck[singular] (disapproving) ordinary people or events
- She saw marriage to him as a way out of the ruck.
Word Originnoun Middle English (in the sense ‘stack of fuel, heap’): apparently of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian ruke ‘heap of hay’.
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