rugby

Noun

Rug=by

WORDNET DICTIONARY

rugby(n = noun.act) rugby football, rugger - a form of football played with an oval ball; Array

is a kind of football, football game

has parts: knock on

rugby, n. (in full Rugby football) a team game played with an oval ball that may be kicked, carried, and passed from hand to hand.

Idiom

Rugby League partly professional Rugby football with teams of 13. Rugby Union amateur Rugby football with teams of 15.

Etymology

Rugby School in S. England, where it was first played

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