Ram-jam
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A forceful poke or shove.
"A fake pass contributed five more, and ram-jams at center and savage jabs at tackle netted ten."
- 2 A person of vaguely Middle Eastern ethnicity. dated, nonce-word
"It is not a conclusive proof of our being enlightened Christians, that we sneer and misinterpret bygone creeds, as though in the old Greek and Roman poetry were shewn nothing worthier than Fetish idols, rotten mummies, Australasian Ram-Jams and Ethiopian Mumbo-Jumbos."
- 3 A person who forces his or her way around.
"Now, thank goodness, we have broken away to acclaim actors who, without reverting to strut and bellow, are playing with a heartening drive and a mingling of subtlety and power ; who give to our stage its proper flash, its kindling glow ; and who make of the theatre more than a home for the "gilded gear," the rowdier ram-jams, and the "dim, moon-eyed fishes" that stare at them decorously."
- 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."
- 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."
Example
More examples"Carburetors, too, are poorly built to stand the racket and ram-jamming they meet."
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