rucknoun
uk/rʌk/us/rʌk/ruck noun (CROWD)
the ruck
ordinary people or things, that you consider boring:
Carter's brilliant second novel lifted her out of the ruck (of average writers).
[ C ] specialized sports a group of players in rugby who are all together around the ball
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Ordinary people
- community
- Essex girl
- folk
- grassroots
- Jane Doe
- Joe Bloggs
- mass
- mass market
- Middle America
- mortal
- multitude
- omnibus
- on the ground idiom
- popular
- popularly
- street
- the common man idiom
- the general public
- the hoi polloi
- the man/woman in the street idiom
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Rugby
ruck noun (FOLD)
[ C ] a fold
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Making things more or less smooth or straight
- bunch
- bunch (sth) up
- coarsen
- collapse
- creased
- crinkle
- crumple
- fold
- furl
- pucker
- pumice stone
- roll sth up
- roughen
- sand
- screw
- sleek
- sleek back/down
- smooth
- steady
- straighten
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