ram-jam

Definitions

1. 1

   To roughly force into a small space or difficult position.

   • Carburetors, too, are poorly built to stand the racket and ram-jamming they meet.
   • Marsh went on as his prisoner drank. "Because you're caught in the middle of my alternate plan, Ram-Jam, which ram-jams your ass between the rockiest rock and the hardest hard place you ever imagined.
   • Unlike cattle going to market, there was no ram-jamming them up a shoot and hauling them off to market where prices were usually poor to bad.
2. 2

   To travel about with no fixed destination.

   • A grand duke, or a lesser titled personage, in a car goes ram-jamming over Moscow at 40 miles an hour up, with no one to say him nay.
   • This place might be work, but it sure beats ram-jamming around just for beans.
   • She planted her legs widely beneath her, beside her rig lashed to the hull with bungee cords—which she could hardly see in the explosion of sun off the white deck of the ram-jamming boat.
3. 3

   A forceful poke or shove.

   • A fake pass contributed five more, and ram-jams at center and savage jabs at tackle netted ten.
   • Era Elbertus tells us, "Indulge an automobile appetite with a push-cart income, and it's you for the ram-jams and stripes."
   • An' a ram-jam now Git alon, Old Bones!
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   1. 4

      A person who forces his or her way around.

   2. 5

      A person of vaguely Middle Eastern ethnicity.

      • Rupees," I answered, before an admiring crowd of Ram-jams, Rajahs, and such like. “

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