Usually means: Team sport with tackling, scoring.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word Rugby:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. rugby: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Rugby, rugby: Merriam-Webster
  3. Rugby, rugby: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Rugby, Rugby: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rugby: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rugby: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rugby, rugby: Wordnik
  8. rugby: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rugby, rugby: Wiktionary
  10. rugby: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Rugby: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. rugby: Dictionary.com
  13. rugby: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rugby: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Rugby (UK Parliament constituency), Rugby (automobile), Rugby (borough), Rugby (sport), Rugby (video game), Rugby: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. rugby: Rhymezone
  17. Rugby: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  18. rugby: FreeDictionary.org
  19. rugby: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Rugby: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Rugby: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rugby (disambiguation), rugby: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See rugbying as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (rugby)

noun:  (usually uncountable, sports)
noun:  A form of football in which players can hold or kick an ovoid ball; rugby football. The ball cannot be handled forwards and points are scored by touching the ball to the ground in the area past the opponent's territory or by kicking the ball between goalposts and over a crossbar.
noun:  (specifically) The form of the game known as rugby union (see the usage note).
verb:  (intransitive) To play rugby.
noun:  (Philippines) Rubber cement, contact cement; commonly associated with solvent abuse, as it is often used as an inhalant.
noun:  A town in Warwickshire, England, where the sport of rugby is thought to have originated.
noun:  A local government district with borough status in Warwickshire, with its headquarters in the town.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Las Animas County, Colorado.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Haw Creek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Pierce County, North Dakota.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Morgan County and Scott County, Tennessee.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Grayson County, Virginia.
noun:  A village in Hilltops council area, New South Wales, Australia.
noun:  (countable) Ellipsis of rugby shirt (“a shirt of the kind worn by rugby players, usually short-sleeved and with a buttoned opening at the neck like a polo shirt, but with a stiffer collar”). [A shirt of the kind worn by rugby players, usually short-sleeved and with a buttoned opening at the neck like a polo shirt, but with a stiffer collar.]

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