ruck

n.

1. 1. A multitude; a throng.
   2. The undistinguished crowd or ordinary run of persons or things.
2. People who are followers, not leaders.
3. Sports.
   1. A play in Rugby in which a mass of players gathers around a ball dropped by a tackled ball carrier, with each player attempting to gain possession of the ball by kicking it to a teammate.
   2. The mass of players during such a play. Also called loose scrum.

[Middle English ruke, heap, probably of Scandinavian origin.]

ruck² (rŭk)

v., rucked, ruck·ing, rucks.

v.tr.
To make a fold in; crease.

v.intr.
To become creased.

n.
A crease or pucker, as in cloth.

[Ultimately from Old Norse hrukka, wrinkle, fold.]

noun

1. An enormous number of persons gathered together: crowd, crush, drove, flock, horde, mass, mob, multitude, press, swarm, throng. See big/small/amount, group.
2. A very large number of things grouped together: army, cloud, crowd, drove, flock, horde, host, legion, mass, mob, multitude, score (used in plural), swarm, throng. See big/small/amount, group.
3. The common people: common (used in plural), commonality, commonalty, commoner (used in plural), crowd, hoi polloi, mass (used in plural), mob, pleb (used in plural), plebeian (used in plural), populace, public, third estate. See over/under.

ruck²

verb

To bend together or make a crease in so that one part lies over another: crease, double, fold, pleat, ply¹. See order/disorder, smooth/rough.

noun

A line or an arrangement made by the doubling of one part over another: crease, crimp, crinkle, crumple, fold, pleat, plica, plication, pucker, rimple, rumple, wrinkle. See smooth/rough.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
  Synonym: herd

Meaning #2: an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
  Synonym: pucker

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The verb ruck has one meaning:

Meaning #1: become puckered
  Synonyms: pucker, ruck up

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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - løs klynge, tre bevægelige spillere, mængde, masse
v. intr. - være med i en klynge

2.
v. tr. - rynke, folde
v. intr. - blive rynket, blive foldet
n. - rynke, fold

idioms:

• ruck up    rynke, folde

3.
n. - ballade, tumult

Nederlands (Dutch)
kreukel, menigte, kreukelen

Français (French)
1.
n. - la masse (péj), mêlée ouverte
v. intr. - prendre part à une mêlée (rugby)

2.
v. tr. - faire un pli dans, se froisser
v. intr. - se froisser
n. - pli, faux pli

idioms:

• ruck up    se plisser

3.
n. - dispute, lutte

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Masse, Gedränge
v. - (Rugby) an einem Ruck teilnehmen

2.
v. - falten, knittern
n. - Falte

idioms:

• ruck up    hochrutschen

3.
n. - Streit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ζάρα, πτυχή, σούρα, κοσμάκης
v. - ζαρώνω, τσαλακώνω/-ομαι

idioms:

• ruck up    κάνω σούρα

Italiano (Italian)
sgualcitura, sgualcire, sgualcirsi

idioms:

• ruck up    sgualcire

Português (Portuguese)
n. - multidão (f), últimos a chegar de uma corrida
v. - dobrar, vincar, franzir

idioms:

• ruck up    dobrar-se, enrugar-se

Русский (Russian)
куча, толпа, серая масса, мяться, собираться складками

idioms:

• ruck up    собираться складками

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - vulgo, pelotón, multitud, (Rugby) grupo que se forma alrededor del jugador que tiene el balón en el piso
v. intr. - (Rugby) tomar parte en el pelotón

2.
v. tr. - arrugar, hacer un pliegue
v. intr. - arrugarse, ponerse arrugado, plegarse
n. - arruga, pliegue

idioms:

• ruck up    fruncir, arrugarse

3.
n. - pelea

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - mängd, klunga, veck, bråk
v. - vecka

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 大群, 群众, 大量, 普通人

idioms:

• ruck up    变皱

2. 弄皱, 变皱, 绉, 褶

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
v. tr. - 弄皺
v. intr. - 變皺
n. - 縐, 褶

2.
n. - 大群, 群眾, 大量, 普通人

idioms:

• ruck up    變皺

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 다수, 잡동사니의, 러크(럭비에서)
v. intr. - 러크하다

2.
v. tr. - 주름살지다
v. intr. - 주름살지게 하다
n. - 주름살, 주름

idioms:

• ruck up    주름살지다

3.
n. - 말다툼, 시비, 불화

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 皺, 有象無象, 大衆, がらくた
v. - ラックする, しわにする, 皺になる

idioms:

• ruck up    捲れる

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) حشد, مجموعه, ثنيه (فعل) يثني, يغضن‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חיי שגרה, המון, כמות גדולה, מעגל-מאבק רופף ברגבי כשהכדור על האדמה, קבוצת המתחרים הגדולה שמאחורי המובילים‬
v. intr. - ‮נמצא במעגל המאבק על הכדור (רגבי)‬
v. tr. - ‮קימט‬
v. intr. - ‮התקמט‬
n. - ‮קמט‬
n. - ‮תגרה, ערימה, גודש‬

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