A ruffian is a
scoundrel,
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, Mother Goose and Coaching Club American Oaks, then known as the American Triple Tiara. She was in the lead a ...
(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 chess variant positions, and generates a move or list of moves that it regards as strongest.
A chess engine is usually a back end with a command-line interface wit ...
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Ruffian 23, Irish sailboat designed by Billy Brown
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Border Ruffian
Border ruffians were proslavery raiders, crossing from the slave state of Missouri into the Kansas Territory, to help ensure Kansas entered the Union as a slave state. They were a key part of the violent period called Bleeding Kansas, that pea ...
s, pro-Slavery activists from Missouri in the American Civil War
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The Ruffian on the Stair
''The Ruffian On the Stair'' is a play by British playwright Joe Orton which was first broadcast on BBC Radio in 1964, in a production by John Tydeman. It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one-act portrayal of working class England, as played out ...
'', 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 originally released only in Japan in 2000. Its story takes place in the near future of 2007 when war breaks out as humanity is stru ...
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*British codename of the German
X-Geraet, radar system
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The Ruffian
''The Ruffian'' (french: Le Ruffian) is a 1983 French-Canadian crime film, crime adventure film written and directed by José Giovanni and starring Lino Ventura, Bernard Giraudeau and Claudia Cardinale.''Le Nouvel Observateur''. Issues 947-964; Vol ...
'', a 1983 French-Canadian criminal adventure film
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