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Meanings of rugger in English

Portuguese
râguebi
Catalan
rugbi
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A form of football played with an oval ball.

râguebi
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Examples for "rugby"
Examples for "rugby"
1
The great rugby union debate: should tackling be banned at school level?
The Guardian
2
Which means, of course, it's an excellent time for rugby to start.
Radio NZ
3
Even in 15's rugby you might have a specific job, said Walsh.
Reuters
4
Asked recently if he still watches rugby league, he said: Watch it?
The Guardian
5
Undoubtedly, it's the most important result in the history of Uruguayan rugby.
The Guardian
1
It has, in many ways, been a revealing week in rugby football.
The Irish Times
2
Sir, Ireland have been playing England at rugby football since 1875.
The Irish Times
3
Witness Mr Myers on Ryanair and Mr Humphries on rugby football.
The Irish Times
4
As we awaited what was, for rugby football, a step into the unknown.
The Irish Times
5
But he had been fortunate to referee rugby football for a number of years.
The Irish Times
Usage of rugger in English
1
Think you're facking officer class already, dontcha, out with the rugger buggers.
Career of Evil
2
Maybe it's their equivalent of Eamon Ryan's daft-as-a-brush run-in with the rugger-buggers.
The Irish Times
3
Barack Obama wasn't a rugger and it appears Donald Trump never played either.
The Guardian
4
I'd had a rather sore knee, from a hack at rugger.
Last battle
5
Anyone who pees off so many rugger types has to be doing something right.
The Irish Times
6
They play rugger, they sing hymns, they're chosen as prefects.
The Guardian
7
I mean to say, I played rugger-footer-that 's tosay,football-Rugbyfootball-forCambridge, against Oxford.
The Adventures of Sally
8
The poor little bugger will never play rugger and grow up big and strong.'
The corfu trilogy
9
They start 'em early at the rugger, reports our man on the internet, Evan Fanning.
The Guardian
10
The Brigade even produced a rugger side and played some strenuous games with Australians and others.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
11
What is a rugger blue, to start with?
The Adventures of Sally
12
He shows how the tabloids have suddenly found rugger page three material and how mind sets have changed.
The Irish Times
13
After all, that's pretty rugger too.
The Irish Times
14
THE Margin noted with interest the plan by Chrysalis to merge Queens Park Rangers with London rugger club Wasps.
The Irish Times
15
The Margin will resist the temptation to compare the species' chances of success with that of the rugger team.
The Irish Times
16
Maybe it is the fact all the rugger buggers have decamped to Australia that has created this false sense of security.
The Irish Times
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Translations for rugger
Portuguese
râguebirúgbi
Catalan
rugbi
Rugger through the time