ruck

1. 1.

   become wrinkled or drawn together

   “her lips puckered”

   Synonymspuckerruck up

   Broaderwrinkle

Other forms of ruck

plural

rucks·

past tense

rucked·

present participle

rucking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ruck

What does ruck mean?

ruck means "a crowd especially of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ruck?

ruck has 1 syllable: ruck. In IPA it is /ˈɹʌk/.

What is another word for ruck?

Close synonyms include herd, pucker, pucker, ruck up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ruck a common word?

ruck is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.