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[ ruhk-shuhn ]
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noun
  1. a disturbance, quarrel, or row.

Origin of ruction

1
First recorded in 1815–25; origin uncertain

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How to use ruction in a sentence

  • That old man never would get it off him without a big ruction, and if he did, Dan would be right after him bigger'n a wolf.

    The Happy Family | Bertha Muzzy Bower
  • Fer me, I guess as we're well out of a ruction that looked at one time likely to get too hot fer anything.

    The Hero of Panama | F. S. Brereton
  • A ruction there could be heard way up and down the line, and would set people running.

    The Hero of Panama | F. S. Brereton
  • There'll be a ruction in this neighbourhood before many minutes.'

    Under the Chinese Dragon | F. S. Brereton
  • But my friends know where I am an' they'll come down here an' raise a ruction if I don't show up.

    Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up | Clarence Edward Mulford

British Dictionary definitions for ruction

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/ (ˈrʌkʃən) /


nouninformal
  1. an uproar; noisy or quarrelsome disturbance

  2. (plural) a violent and unpleasant row; trouble: there'll be ructions when she finds out

Origin of ruction

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C19: perhaps changed from insurrection

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