ramp

UK /ɹæmp/ US /ɹæmp/
noun 8verb 5name 1

Definitions

noun

1

An inclined surface that connects two levels; an incline.

2

An interchange, a road that connects a freeway to a surface street or another freeway.

3

A structure with an inclined surface made for stunts, as for jumping motorcycles or other vehicles.

4

A mobile staircase that is attached to the doors of an aircraft at an airport.

5

A way of hitting a boundary by facing the bat face front and pushing with force to launch the ball. 100% of it done against pace.

He hit three ramps in a row to push his team near the opponents total.

verb

1

To behave violently; to rage.

Mick raged and ramped at the barred door till his voice failed,

2

To swindle or rob violently.

In English slang, to ramp was to swindle or rob.

3

To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.

4

To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently.

Their bridles they would champe, / And trampling the fine element would fiercely rampe.

I've seen a ramping equestrian statue of General St. Clare on the Embankment.

5

To climb, like a plant; to creep up.

Lathyrus ſylveſtris flore luteo. Tare everlaſting. This ramping vvilde Vetch or Tare as the country people call it, becauſe it is the moſt pernicious herbe that can grovv on the earth, for corne or any other good herbe that it ſhall grovv by, killing and ſtrangling them: […]

With claspers and tendrils, they [plants] catch hold, […] and so ramping upon trees, […]they mount up to a great height.

noun

1

Any of species Allium tricoccum of plants related to the onion; a wild leek.

A ramp is a potently flavored wild scallion, a vegetable with staying power.

2

A promiscuous man or woman.

And yet in the very next Canto she appears an arrant Ramp and a Tomrigg;[…]

3

A worthless person.

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