Australian Rules

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noun

(functioning as singular) a game resembling rugby football, played in Australia between teams of 18 men each on an oval pitch, with a ball resembling a large rugby ball. Players attempt to kick the ball between posts (without crossbars) at either end of the pitch, scoring six points for a goal (between the two main posts) and one point for a behind (between either of two outer posts and the main posts). They may punch or kick the ball and run with it provided that they bounce it every ten yardsAlso called: national code

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How to use Australian Rules in a sentence

House rules require an absolute majority of members voting to choose a speaker.
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Rule 16(c) was a proposed change in the rules at the 1976 Republican Convention.
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The rules change would have required all candidates to do the same.
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Defenders of the status quo claim the old rules protect consumers.
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We have reached a tipping point in the culture where Americans are now trained to look to the rules instead of their own judgment.
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These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.
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But men, through neglecting the rules of health, pass quickly to old age, and die before reaching that term.
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Not only do children thus of themselves extend the scope of our commands, they show a disposition to make rules for themselves.
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This Peal (by the Rules aforesaid) may be Rang with any whole hunt, half hunt, and quarter hunt.
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Meanwhile, the Australian submarine has got up through the Narrows and has torpedoed a gunboat at Chunuk.
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