a ruck of people [players]
She saw marriage to him as a way out of the ruck.
His being higher in learning and birth than the ruck soldiers is anything but a proof of his worth.
About his dress and his neat figure was that studied ease which lifts men from the ruck of common bridegrooms.
On his first outing to meet European colleagues in Luxembourg this week he found himself like a prop pinned under a ruck, with studs tearing into his flesh.
