A ruffian is a
scoundrel
Scoundrel or Scoundrels may refer to:
Books
* ''Scoundrel'', a 1996 romance novel by Elizabeth Elliott
* ''Scoundrel'' (book), a 2022 book by Sarah Weinman
* ''Scoundrel'' (novel), a 2004 novel by Bernard Cornwell
* ''Scoundrels'' (novel), a 2 ...
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rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.
Ruffian may refer to:
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Ruffian (horse)
Ruffian (April 17, 1972 – July 7, 1975) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse who won ten consecutive races, including the Acorn Stakes, Acorn, Mother Goose Stakes, Mother Goose and Coaching Club American Oaks, then known as the Triple Tia ...
(1972–1975), a famous thoroughbred racehorse
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''Ruffian'' (film), a 2007 television movie about the racehorse
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Ruffian Games
Rockstar Dundee Limited (formerly Ruffian Games Limited) is a British video game developer and a studio of Rockstar Games based in Dundee. The studio is best known for developing '' Crackdown 2''.
Gary Liddon, Billy Thomson, and Gareth Noyce ...
, a Scottish games developer
*Ruffian, a
chess engine
In computer chess, a chess engine is a computer program that analyzes chess or List of chess variants, chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it regards as strongest.
A chess software engine, engine is usually a Front ...
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Ruffian 23, Irish sailboat designed by Billy Brown
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Border Ruffian
Border ruffians were Proslavery thought, proslavery raiders who crossed into the Kansas Territory from Missouri during the mid-19th century to help ensure the territory entered the United States as a Slave states and free states, slave state. ...
s, pro-Slavery activists from Missouri in the American Civil War
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The Ruffian on the Stair'', a 1964 British play
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HMS ''Bellerophon'' (1786), also known as ''Billy Ruffian''
*The Ruffians, the major antagonists of the Nintendo game ''
Sin and Punishment
''Sin and Punishment'' is a rail shooter video game co-developed by Treasure and Nintendo for the Nintendo 64, and released in Japan in 2000. Its story takes place in the near future of 2007 when war breaks out as humanity is struggling with a g ...
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*British codename of the German
X-Geraet, radar system
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The Ruffian
''The Ruffian'' () is a 1983 French-Canadian crime adventure film written and directed by José Giovanni and starring Lino Ventura, Bernard Giraudeau and Claudia Cardinale.''Le Nouvel Observateur''. Issues 947-964; Volume 947. It is based on Giovan ...
'', a 1983 French-Canadian criminal adventure film
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