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==English==

====Noun====
{{en-noun|rucks|-}}

# A crease, a wrinkle, a pucker, as on fabric.
# {{rugby union}} The situation formed when a [[runner]] is brought to [[ground]] and one or more members of each side are engaged above the [[ball]], trying to win [[possession]] of it; a [[loose scrum]].
# {{context|Australian Rules Football}} Contesting a bounce or ball up; used appositionally in "ruck contest".  Rucks also used collectively either of ruckmen or of ruckmen and ruck rovers, and occasionally used in place of "followers" (including rovers too).
# {{archaic}} A [[fight]], a [[scuffle]].
# {{obsolete}} The commonplace; the lower social classes.
# {{obsolete}} A rapidly moving [[throng]] or [[mob]]; a [[pack]] of people actively engaged in something.

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{transitive}} To crease or fold.
# {{intransitive}} To become folded.
# {{obsolete|transitive}} To act as a ruckman in a stoppage in Australian Rules football.

===Thesaurus===
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====Pronunciation====
*: {{rhymes|ʌk}}