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rut

/ɹʌt/ [ɹʌʔ] noun C1
  1. Sexual desire in any of many mammals, often specific to mating season; the state or season in which this is experienced. (countable, uncountable)
  2. The noise made by deer during sexual excitement. (countable, uncountable) · Near-synonyms: grunt, roar
  3. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. (countable, uncountable)
  4. In omegaverse fiction, the intense biological urge of an alpha to mate, typically triggered by proximity to an omega in heat. (countable, slang, uncountable)

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“The very first thing which I observed on arriving there was that a cab had made two ruts with its wheels close to the curb.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 36 · B2
Glow-worm in the highway rut,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 20 · C1

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