Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
bajada | a scrummaging technique developed in Argentina. |
conversion | a score made after a try by kicking the ball over the crossbar from a place kick. |
garryowen | in rugby, a high kick forward followed by a rush towards the landing place of the ball. |
handoff | the act of pushing off an opponent eg in rugby. |
jackling | the winning of the ball, by the defender's team, after a tackle and before a ruck has formed. |
loosie | (Sl.) a loose forward in rugby. |
minirugby | a scaled down version of rugby. |
murderball | a form of rugby played in wheelchairs by people afflicted with quadriplegia. |
openside | in rugby, a flanker who plays on the open side of the scrum. |
rugby | a form of football using an oval ball. |
rugger | rugby football. |
scruff | the back of the neck (verb) in rugby, to engage in a scrummage |
scrum scrummage | a disorderly struggle, a melee esp in rugby; (verb) to form a scrum. |
scrumdown | the act of forming a rugby scrum. |
scrummager | one who takes part in a scrummage. |
scrummie | (Sl.) a scrum half. |
scrumpox | (Sl.) rugby slang for impetigo spread by players' faces rubbing together in the scrum. |
speculator | an unidrected kick of the ball. |