rut
IPA: rˈʌt
noun
- (zoology) Sexual desire or oestrus of cattle, and various other mammals.
- The noise made by deer during sexual excitement.
- Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote.
- (fandom slang) In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat.
- A furrow, groove, or track worn in the ground, as from the passage of many wheels along a road.
- (figurative) A fixed routine, procedure, line of conduct, thought or feeling.
- (figurative) A dull routine.
verb
- (intransitive) To be in the annual rut or mating season.
- (intransitive) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, rare) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (transitive) To make a furrow.
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Examples of "rut" in Sentences
- The roads were rutted and rough.
- This means we're stuck in a rut.
- I therefore find myself in a rut.
- Gwen, we seem to be stuck in a rut.
- Be adventurous and get out of a rut.
- Rut at the time, it was the best around.
- Rut Jugga is in the last hours of the night.
- A tiger is filmed stalking a rutting gaur herd.
- These are the characteristics of a process in a rut.
- But by and large the British electorate is stuck in a rut.