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Rugger

noun
1.
A form of football played with an oval ball.  Synonyms: rugby, rugby football.






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"Rugger" Quotes from Famous Books



... Really, Quinny, if you don't feel fear, there's not much of the heroic in your acts. That kind of man isn't much braver when he's plunging at Germans than he is when he's plunging at a motor-omnibus or getting into a 'scrum' at Rugger. He simply doesn't see any difference. It's something to plunge at, and so he plunges. I haven't much faith in the Don't-Care-a-Damn Brigade. They're more anxious to get V. C's than to get victories. Their courage is just egoism ... they're thinking, not of their ...
— Changing Winds - A Novel • St. John G. Ervine



Words linked to "Rugger" :   scrum, football, hack, U.K., Great Britain, rugby football, Britain, knock on, throw-in, winger, football game, UK, hooker, hook, scrummage, goal-kick, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom



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