Definitions
a form of football played with an oval ball
Word origin
From rugby (“Rugby football”) + -er (Oxford “-er”). Compare contemporary soccer, from Association football. Both words seem to have originated at the University of Oxford during the 1880s. See Oxford -er.
Used in a sentence
“That . . . . . . may for once put a full Rugger team in the field”
“Golf is perhaps seven or eight years old in Oxford, ... football, seu Rugger, sive Soccer, not more than sixteen or seventeen.”
“Rugger (schools), the Rugby game at football”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Rugby, informally”6 letters
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