Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word RUCK
RUCK
Definitions of RUCK
- A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
- To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.
- A small heifer.
- A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack. [from 16th c.]
- In Australian rules football
- (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. [from 20th c.]
- The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks. [from 19th c.]
- (colloquial) An argument or fight.
- (obsolete, transitive) To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football.
- (transitive, rugby union) To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
- (transitive) To crease or fold.
- (intransitive) To become creased or folded.
- (UK, dialect, obsolete) To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.
- Obsolete form of roc.
- (slang, especially, military) A rucksack; a large backpack.
- A German surname from German.
Number of letters
4
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using RUCK in a Sentence
- The film stars Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, and Alan Ruck, with supporting roles from Jennifer Grey, Jeffrey Jones, Cindy Pickett, Edie McClurg, Lyman Ward, and Charlie Sheen.
- When the ball is in a ruck, maul, scrum or line-out, any player who is in front of the hindmost foot of the hindmost player of the same side in the ruck/maul/scrum/lineout is in an offside position.
- Other members of staff at City Hall include press secretary Paul Lassiter (Richard Kind), the office snitch and a manipulative coward, who has a habit of being a troublemaker and is often kept in the dark about things; chief of staff Stuart Bondek (Alan Ruck), who thinks of himself as a lothario and is highly sexist; and head of minority affairs Carter Heywood (Michael Boatman), a gay black man with a suicidal dog named Rags.
- Even today the rules only declare that a maximum of four per side is allowed in the centre square at the ball-up (ruck, rover, ruck-rover and centre) and 6 must start within each 50m arc, while during general play, all players are free to position themselves as they see fit.
- Schmidt, Alyson Stoner, Jacob Smith, Forrest Landis, Liliana Mumy, Morgan York, Blake Woodruff, Brent and Shane Kinsman, Paula Marshall, and Alan Ruck.
- Ruck played Cameron Frye in John Hughes' 1986 comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, as the title character's hypochondriac best friend, after Broderick encouraged him to audition for the role; their real-life friendship was reportedly a factor in Ruck being cast.
- Equally, a referee may warn teams about technical infringements (especially at the scrum and ruck) before penalising them.
- However, after overcoming Subiaco in the preliminary, Bunton developed an ingenious tactic to counter Royals' champion Polly Farmer by using both Keith Slater and Fred Castledine in the ruck contests.
- At the end of the 1899 season, in the process of naming his own "champion player", the football correspondent for The Argus ("Old Boy"), selected a team of the best players of the 1899 VFL competition:
Backs: Maurie Collins (Essendon), Bill Proudfoot (Collingwood), Peter Burns (Geelong); Halfbacks: Pat Hickey (Fitzroy), George Davidson (South Melbourne), Alf Wood (Melbourne); Centres: Fred Leach (Collingwood), Firth McCallum (Geelong), Harry Wright (Essendon); Wings: Charlie Pannam (Collingwood), Eddie Drohan (Fitzroy), Herb Howson (South Melbourne); Forwards: Bill Jackson (Essendon), Eddy James (Geelong), Charlie Colgan (South Melbourne); Ruck: Mick Pleass (South Melbourne), Frank Hailwood (Collingwood), Joe McShane (Geelong); Rovers: Dick Condon (Collingwood), Bill McSpeerin (Fitzroy), Teddy Rankin (Geelong). - Judd played 21 of the 22 home-and-away games through the season was named All-Australian captain and ruck rover – his third All-Australian selection, and first as captain – and won the John Nicholls Medal for the best and fairest of the Carlton Football Club.
- All four TGIF shows featured as part of the block's 1990–91 Fall schedule were produced by them (a move that resulted in the cancellation of Just the Ten of Us, despite it maintaining fairly decent ratings in its Friday slot), with Perfect Strangers, Family Matters and Full House being joined by Going Places, a comedy centering on the lives of four roommates (Alan Ruck, Heather Locklear, Jerry Levine and Hallie Todd) who write for a Candid Camera-style hidden camera show.
- Roughly 20 minutes into the match, he was caught at the bottom of a rather aggressive ruck, and a French boot kicked his groin, ripping his scrotum and leaving one testicle hanging free.
- One common variation is that a fair touch must be below the waist, or, with two hands, or, to encourage rucking, a small non-contact ruck may be formed when a player is "touched".
- 1983 saw the Lions emerge after five rounds as favourites for the premiership and maintain that favouritism with a sensational win in a top-of-the-table clash with North Melbourne by 150 points with Rendell kicking eight goals besides destroying Gary Dempsey in the ruck.
- Born in Salem, Massachusetts to housewright Joseph McIntire and Sarah (Ruck), he was a woodcarver by trade who grew into the practice of architecture.
- Notable guest stars include Paul Rudd, Rashida Jones, Sam Rockwell, Topher Grace, Tim Blake Nelson, Alan Ruck, Janeane Garofalo, Elizabeth Banks, and Edward Norton.
- In the dying minutes of the game, Stringer passed the ball from a ruck to Ronan O'Gara, who then scored the drop-goal that won Ireland's first Grand Slam since 1948.
- Early penalties for infringements in the ruck by the Kiwis, gave Australia an early two points from a Johnathan Thurston kick.
- Henry never stated that referee Wayne Barnes was culpable for the defeat, as Barnes not only allowed several French ruck infringements to go unpunished, but also sin-binned Luke McAlister and missed a forward pass in the buildup to the decisive French try scored by Yannick Jauzion.
- Later bags had a webbing hand grip, along with a shoulder strap with clip that closed the bag by nesting grommets from around the rim of bag, over padlockable eye loop, later an independent pair of ruck sack straps were used.
- Grundy Light Entertainment – the German division, which produces such shows as Ruck Zuck (best known of Grundy's German game shows), Das Quiz mit Jörg Pilawa, Q-Boot, along owing and producing German versions of RTL Group formats Family Feud (Familien-Duell), Sale of the Century (Hopp oder Top), and The Price Is Right (Der Preis ist heiß).
- Carl Ruck is best known for his work along with other scholars in mythology and religion on the sacred role of entheogens, or psychoactive plants that induce an altered state of consciousness, as used in religious or shamanistic rituals.
- Wilson in the ruck and Hewitt roving treated the spectators to some clever football, their agility in nonplussing their opponents and exceedingly smart passing on from one to another being unsurpassed, and the spectators time after time expressed their approval of the brilliancy of their work.
- Ebeling was educated at Caulfield Grammar School from 1919 to 1922, where he played cricket in the school's First XI, football (in the ruck, and at centre half-forward) in its First XVIII, and as a miler in its athletic team.
- The rover is a player who lurks around centre bounces and stoppages to receive the ball from a ruck rover and complete a clearance.
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