ruck

Definition

A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.

Etymology

From Middle English ruke, from or related to Old Norse hraukr, which is from Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“haystack, heap”). Compare Icelandic hrúka, Swedish ruka.

Example Sentences

• "Dandolo was constantly in the ditch, sometimes lying with his side against the bank, and had now been so hustled and driven that, had he been on the other side, he would have had no breath left to carry his rider, even in the ruck of the hunt."
• "‘Here and there among cats one comes across an outstanding superior intellect, just as one does among the ruck of human beings [...].’"
• "Your worth as a couple is not down to how passionate your rucks are—I said rucks—and how frantic the making-up sex is."

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