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   ruck

   /rʌk/

   noun

   • 1. 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"
   • ▪ a group of three players who follow the play without fixed positions.
   • 2. a tightly packed crowd of people: "Harry squeezed through the ruck to order another pint"
   • ▪ the mass of ordinary people or things: "education was the key to success, a way out of the ruck"

   verb

   • 1. take part in a ruck: "too often the pack failed to ruck as a unit"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘stack of fuel, heap’): apparently of Scandinavian origin; compare with Norwegian ruke ‘heap of hay’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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