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• n  a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
  his brilliance raised him above the ruck
• n  an irregular fold in an otherwise even surface (as in cloth)
• v  become wrinkled or drawn together

• The quality that long ago lifted Scripps-Howard's Clapper out of the ruck of columnists is his knack of translating some event into sound sense on the very day that people want .
• It can't yet touch the range or ad rates of Rush (600 stations, 20 million weekly listeners) and his ruck.
• The ruck of men she's found through online dating services don't offer much.

• herd
• pucker
• ruck up

News & Articles

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• Rugby-Ruck the key to containing Lions, say Waratahs
  By Ed Davies SYDNEY, June 15 (Reuters) - Containing the powerful rucking of the British and Irish Lions forwards will be key for the Wallabies in the test series, New South Wales Waratahs coach Michael Cheika said on Saturday. The Waratahs were comprehensively beaten 47-17 in the penultimate warm-up game for the Lions ahead of next week's opening test against the Wallabies in Brisbane and the ...
  June 15, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Sports
• Expedition hopes to find La Salle's long lost ship in Lake Michigan
  In this October 2012 image from video provided by David J. Ruck, diver Tom Kucharsky passes timbers protruding from the bottom of Lake Michigan that were discovered by Steve Libert, head of Great Lakes Exploration Group, in 2001. On Saturday, June 15, 2013, Libert will lead a diving expedition to an underwater site in northern Lake Michigan, where archaeologists and technicians will try to ...
  June 13, 2013 - Peoria Journal Star
• Expedition hopes to find long-lost ship in Lake Michigan
  In this October 2012 image from video provided by David J. Ruck, diver Tom Kucharsky passes timbers protruding from the bottom of Lake Michigan that were discovered by Steve Libert, head of Great Lakes Exploration Group, in 2001. On Saturday, June 15, 2013, Libert will lead a diving expedition to an underwater site in northern Lake Michigan, where archaeologists and technicians will try to ...
  June 13, 2013 - Lansing State Journal

Quotes

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• Alan Rusbridger in guardian.co.uk
  Tonight, Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian's editor, said: "I welcome the climbdown by Trafigura and Carter-Ruck. Now people can read the Minton report they will realise why it was in the public interest for it to be published. It has taken a five-week...
• Clinton Toopi in Sportinglife.com
  Commenting on his return, Toopi said: "The shoulder is not an issue at all. I have been doing a bit of ruck work this week and it didn't bother me at all - it is like having a new shoulder."
• David Petraeus in New York Times
  We are a long way back in the ruck, that's a fact and we're way back with a lot of other teams that would probably still think that the door is slightly ajar. But we let one of those teams jump us last week ...... now every win you give to an... Matthew Knights http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Knights&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFqZBm45jNL-YN23SiO-WotKsjOTQ Sydney Morning Herald http://www.google.com/url?q=http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sport/we-can-still-make-it-knights-20100706-zyom.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF-TDStOrv8wjwMk8yrA3UXWBqdtA Jul 5, 2010 84979 113219 rucksack The rucksack of responsibility is very heavy," General Petraeus said, after beginning his speech with the Muslim greeting "salaam aleikum," or "peace be upon you."