rugby
Pluralrugbies, rugbys
Verbrugbies, rugbying, rugbied
Pluralrugbies, rugbys
Formsrugbies, rugbying, rugbied
- 1A team sport where players carry or kick an oval ball but never throw it forward.
In rugby, you can't throw the ball forward to a teammate.
He broke his nose playing rugby at school.
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- 2The particular form of the sport known as rugby union.
Most of the boys at his school play rugby, but in the next town everyone plays league.
He played league as a boy and switched to rugby when he moved to Wales.
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- 3Short for rugby shirt. Used mostly when talking about what someone is wearing.
He wore a striped rugby with a white collar to the party.
My favorite rugby is green and gold, and I wear it every weekend.
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- 4A strong rubber glue, often linked with people who sniff glue to get high.
Dad used rugby to fix the sole of his shoe.
The store keeps the rugby behind the counter so kids can't buy it.
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- 5To play the sport of rugby.
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Origins
The game is named after Rugby School, in the English town of Rugby, where the modern game was developed in the 1800s.
It comes from Rugby, a brand name for a kind of rubber glue made by the company Bostik.