rugby

• Rugby

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹʌɡbi/

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1823: Named after Rugby School in Warwickshire, where William Webb Ellis "with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the rugby game". The place name Rugby is attested in the Domesday Book as Rocheberie, possibly equivalent to rook +‎ -by.

rugby (countable and uncountable, plural rugbies)

1. (usually uncountable) A form of football in which players can hold or kick an ovoid ball. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past their opponent’s territory or kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar.

   The scrum is a distinctive element of rugby.

   The two rugbies split following a debate about amateurism.

2. (countable) A loose fitting shirt with a collar, as worn by rugby players.
   • 2003, B. Lawson Thornton, Misery Loves Company: The Diary of Kerri Mitchell, East River Press →ISBN

     I don't know why, but for some reason people who work undercover for department store security always wear rugbies and khakis.

   • 2007, Adam Mansbach, Angry Black White Boy: A Novel, Crown →ISBN, page 69

     Jansports and cargo pants were everywhere, set off with overstated polos, rugbies, and sweatshirts blaring the logos of hip hop designers.

   • 2015, Tony Jackson, FROM THE STREETS TO THE SHEETS, Page Publishing Inc →ISBN

     I bought three jogging suits, a pair of Polo sneakers, and two rugbies.

Rugby is commonly used to refer specifically to the game of rugby union – for example, the Rugby World Cup is a rugby union tournament. Referring to rugby league simply as rugby is less common outside the sport's strongholds.

• rugby football, rugger

• rugby league, league
• rugby union, RU, union
• rugby sevens, rugby 7s
• rugby tens, rugby 10s, ten-a-side rugby, 10-a-side rugby, ten-a-side, 10-a-side
• rugby fifteens, rugby 15s
• (obsolete) Canadian rules rugby (now evolved into Canadian football)
• (obsolete) American rules ruby / Harvard rules football (now evolved into American football)

• rugby on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• American football
• association football
• Canadian football
• football
• rugby football

Borrowed from Cebuano rugby, from English Rugby, a brand of rubber cement by Bostik.

rugby (plural rugbys)

1. (Philippines) Rubber cement, contact cement.

Borrowed from English rugby.

rugby (uncountable)

1. (sports) rugby

From Rugby, (a brand of rubber cement by Bostik).

rugby

1. rubber cement, contact cement

Borrowed from English rugby.

rugby

1. the sport of rugby

• ragby

Borrowed from English rugby (sport).

• IPA^(key): /ˈraɡbɪ/

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• Hyphenation: rug‧by

rugby n (indeclinable)

1. rugby [20th c.]
   • 2006, Luboš Jeřábek (transl.), Fotbal – velký lexikon‎, Praha: Grada Publishing, translation of Fussball-Lexikon by Bernd Rohr and Günter Simon, →ISBN, page 10:

     Ve škole v Rugby zakládá W. W. Ellis hru rugby (zvanou také rugbyfotbal, na rozdíl od pozdějšího asociačního fotbalu), při které je dovoleno hrát i rukama.

     W. W. Ellis invents a game called rugby (or rugby football, in contrast to later founded association football), in which it is allowed to play with hands, at a school in Rugby.

• rugbista
• rugbyový

• rugby in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• rugby in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from English rugby.

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• Hyphenation: rug‧by

rugby n (uncountable)

1. rugby (sport)

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɑɡbi/, [ˈrɑɡbi], IPA^(key): /ˈruɡby/, [ˈruɡby]
• Hyphenation: rug‧by

rugby

1. (sports) rugby

Borrowed from English rugby.

• IPA^(key): /ʁyɡ.bi/, /ʁyd.bi/

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rugby m (uncountable)

1. rugby (sport)

• rugby à quinze
• rugby à treize
• rugbyman
• rugbywoman

• “rugby” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from English rugby.

rugby m (invariable)

1. rugby (form of football)

• râguebi (Portugal)
• rúgbi (Brazil)

Borrowed from English rugby.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁɐɡ.bi/

rugby m (uncountable)

1. rugby

Borrowed from English rugby.

rugby m (plural rugbys)

1. rugby