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RUGBY
rugby, rugby football, rugger
(noun) a form of football played with an oval ball
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Rugby
A town in Warwickshire, England, where the sport of rugby is thought to have originated.
A local government district with borough status in Warwickshire with its headquarters in the town.
A city, the county seat of Pierce County, North Dakota, United States.
Etymology 1
Noun
rugby (countable and uncountable, plural rugbies)
(usually, uncountable) A form of football in which players can hold or kick an ovoid ball. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past their opponent’s territory or kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar.
(countable) A loose fitting shirt with a collar, as worn by rugby players.
Usage notes
Rugby is commonly used to refer specifically to the game of rugby union – for example, the Rugby World Cup is a rugby union tournament. Referring to rugby league simply as rugby is less common outside the sport's strongholds.
Synonyms
• rugby football, rugger
Hyponyms
• rugby league, league
• rugby union, RU, union
• rugby sevens, rugby 7s
• rugby tens, rugby 10s, ten-a-side rugby, 10-a-side rugby, ten-a-side, 10-a-side
• rugby fifteens, rugby 15s
• (obsolete) Canadian rules rugby (now evolved into Canadian football)
• (obsolete) American rules ruby / Harvard rules football (now evolved into American football)
Etymology 2
Noun
rugby (plural rugbies)
(Philippines) Rubber cement, contact cement.
Source: Wiktionary
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(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
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