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Yes. The word ruck is a Scrabble US word. The word ruck is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word ruck is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

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4-letter words (1 found)

RUCK,

3-letter words (3 found)

CRU,CUR,RUC,

2-letter words (1 found)

UR,

You can make 5 words from ruck according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of ruck

ruck urck rcuk cruk ucrk curk rukc urkc rkuc kruc ukrc kurc rcku crku rkcu krcu ckru kcru uckr cukr ukcr kucr ckur kcur

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Definitions and meaning of ruck

ruck

Etymology 1

From Middle English ruke, from Old Norse. Compare Icelandic hrúka, Swedish ruka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɹʌk/
    • (Northern England) IPA(key): /ɹʊk/
  • Homophone: rook (most accents without foot-strut split)
  • Rhymes: -ʌk

Noun

ruck (plural rucks)

  1. A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack. [from 16th c.]
  2. In Australian rules football
    1. 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.
    2. A player who competes in said contests; a ruckman or ruckwoman.
    3. (now rare) Either of a ruckman or a ruck rover, but not a rover.
    4. Any one of a ruckman, a ruck rover or a rover; a follower.
  3. (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.]
  4. The common mass of people or things; the ordinary ranks. [from 19th c.]
  5. (colloquial) An argument or fight.
Usage notes

In the second Australian rules football sense, "ruck" is a gender-neutral term. "Ruckman" is sometimes considered to refer only to men, but is often considered gender-neutral. "Ruckwoman" only refers to women.

Translations
See also
  • maul
  • scrum

Verb

ruck (third-person singular simple present rucks, present participle rucking, simple past and past participle rucked)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football.
  2. (transitive, rugby union) To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck.
Translations

Derived terms

  • outruck

Etymology 2

1780, from Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle, crease”), from Proto-Germanic *hrunkijō, *hrunkitō (“fold, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to turn, bend”). Akin to Icelandic hrukka (“wrinkle, crease, ruck”), Old High German runza (“fold, wrinkle, crease”), German Runzel (“wrinkle”), Middle Dutch ronse (“frown”). More at frounce. Possibly related to Irish roc.

Verb

ruck (third-person singular simple present rucks, present participle rucking, simple past and past participle rucked)

  2. (transitive) To crease or fold.
  4. (intransitive) To become creased or folded.
Derived terms
  • ruck up
See also
  • ruche (“to pleat; to bunch up”)
  • rutch (“to slide”)

Noun

ruck (plural rucks)

  1. A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.

Etymology 3

Compare Danish ruge (“to brood, to hatch”).

Verb

ruck (third-person singular simple present rucks, present participle rucking, simple past and past participle rucked)

  1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) To cower or huddle together; to squat; to sit, as a hen on eggs.

Etymology 4

Noun

ruck (plural rucks)

  1. Obsolete form of roc.

Etymology 5

Clipping of rucksack.

Noun

ruck (plural rucks)

  1. (slang, especially military) A rucksack; a large backpack.

Verb

ruck (third-person singular simple present rucks, present participle rucking, simple past and past participle rucked)

  1. To carry a backpack while hiking or marching.

See also

  • rucksack
  • backpack
  • backpacking

Etymology 6

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ruck (plural rucks)

  1. A small heifer.

Further reading

  • Jonathon Green (2024) “ruck n.2”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁœk/

Noun

ruck m (plural rucks)

  1. (rugby) ruck

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English rokke.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɾʊk/

Noun

ruck

  1. rock
    Synonym: carrick

References

  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 130

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