Wiktionary
n. An instance of knocking someone or something over using one's arms and upper body. vb. To knock someone over using one's arms and upper body.
Usage examples of "rugby tackle".
The Journalist picked himself up, charged after the accountant and brought him down in what would have been referred to as a rugby tackle if they had played rugby football on Blerontin.
Emboldened by their apparently passive attitude a couple of tough lads ran out and tried to rugby tackle the invaders.
Schaffer, immediately off-balance, flung up his arms in an attempt to maintain equilibrium and, before he could even begin to bring his arms down again, was winded by a diving rugby tackle by Christiansen.
It's difficult to do a rugby tackle when your hands are tied behind your back but I did my best and went for Lash's legs.
Constable John Harney brought down Hugo Rune with a spectacular rugby tackle.
It was a rugby tackle that would have made her brother Jules quite proud.
Another bouncer made a flying rugby tackle at McCann, but hadn't allowed for the reaction from throwing the chair.
Flinging himself at the man's knees in a rugby tackle, he brought him down.