Usually means: A tightly packed crowd gathers.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. ruck, the ruck: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck, the ruck: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ruck, ruck: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ruck: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ruck: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ruck, ruck: Wordnik
  7. ruck, the ruck: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ruck: Wiktionary
  9. ruck: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ruck: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Ruck, ruck: Dictionary.com
  12. Ruck (Rugby union), Ruck (rugby union), Ruck: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Ruck: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. ruck: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. ruck: Rhymezone
  16. Ruck (m), ruck: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. ruck: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. ruck: Free Dictionary
  19. ruck: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. ruck: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. ruck: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. RUCK: Acronym Finder

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ruck, ruck, ruck: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ruck: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. ruck: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Ruck: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
noun:  In Australian rules football
noun:  A contest in games in which the ball is thrown or bounced in the air and two players from opposing teams attempt to give their team an advantage, typically by tapping the ball to a teammate.
noun:  A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
noun:  (now rare) Either of a ruckman or a ruck rover, but not a rover.
noun:  Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
noun:  (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.
noun:  The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks.
noun:  (colloquial) An argument or fight.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football.
verb:  (transitive, rugby union) To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
verb:  (transitive) To crease or fold.
verb:  (intransitive) To become creased or folded.
noun:  A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
verb:  (UK, dialect, obsolete) To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
noun:  (slang, especially military) A rucksack; a large backpack.
verb:  To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.
noun:  A small heifer.
noun:  A surname from German.
noun:  Obsolete form of roc. [An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.]

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