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rug⋅ger

  [ruhg-er]
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–noun
Rugby (def. 3).
Origin:
1890–95; rug(by) + -er 7
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Rug⋅by

  [ruhg-bee]
–noun
1. a city in E Warwickshire, in central England. 86,400.
2. a boys' preparatory school located there: founded 1567.
3. Also, rugby. Also called rugger, Rugby football. a form of football, played between two teams of 15 members each, that differs from soccer in freedom to carry the ball, block with the hands and arms, and tackle, and is characterized chiefly by continuous action and prohibition against the use of substitute players.
Origin:
‡ 1835–40 for def. 3
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rug·ger   (rŭg'ər)   
n.   Chiefly British
Rugby.

[Alteration of Rugby2.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

rugby 
1864, after Rugby, public school where the game was played, from city of Rugby in Warwickshire, central England. The place name is Rocheberie (1086) "fortified place of a man called *Hroca," second element from O.E. burh (dat. byrig), replaced by 13c. with O.N. -by "village." First element perhaps rather O.E. hroc "rook." Rugby Union formed 1871. Slang rugger for "rugby player" is from 1893.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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