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Ramp   /ræmp/   Listen
Ramp

verb
(past & past part. ramped; pres. part. ramping)
1.
Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger.  Synonyms: rage, storm.
2.
Furnish with a ramp.
3.
Be rampant.
4.
Creep up -- used especially of plants.
5.
Stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing.



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"Ramp" Quotes from Famous Books



... way off, a hundred miles from the city, another warning light flashed on, far underground. Automatic relays flew into action. Gears turned, belts whined. On the ground above a section of metal slag slipped back. A ramp appeared. ...
— The Gun • Philip K. Dick

... increase, that ruin'd temples rise, That their wind-moving vanes do kiss the skies; That Ignorance and Sloth hence run away, That buried Arts now rouse them to the day, That Hyperion far beyond his bed Doth see our lions ramp, our roses spread; That Iber courts us, Tiber not us charms, That Rhine with hence-brought beams his bosom warms; That ill doth fear, and good doth us maintain, Are wish'd effects ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan

... turned us off the road. We climbed the ramp of an open grassy field, with a little cedar woods to one side, and up ahead, half a mile to the right, the dark crumbling ramparts of a little ancient fort which once was for the defense ...
— The White Invaders • Raymond King Cummings

... night as rapidly as the truck could manage. Finally, they rolled into City Hall, down a ramp, and onto an elevator that took them three levels down. Trench climbed out and nodded in satisfaction. "That's it. Take tomorrow off, if you want, and I'll fix credit for you. But just remember you haven't seen anything. You ...
— Police Your Planet • Lester del Rey

... you chaps, he said as he went downstairs again. 'If we don't get these ceilings finished by dinner-time, Nimrod's sure to ramp.' ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... the loading ramp, savoring the dry, dusty air that smelled unmistakable of spaceship. He half-consciously separated the odors; the sweet, volatile scent of fuel, the sharp aroma of lingering exhaust gases from early morning test-firing, ...
— Tight Squeeze • Dean Charles Ing

... on about it to us. Well, my day's spoilt, if they come on with us afterwards. I couldn't shoot an ostrich sitting with a woman chattering: to me. Miss CHICKWEED's got her eye on you. LLOYD. She's marked you. No good trying to do a ramp. You're ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 103, November 12, 1892 • Various



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