ram-jam

ram-jam verb: to roughly force into a small space or difficult position.

Verb

ram-jam (third-person singular simple present ram-jams, present participle ram-jamming, simple past and past participle ram-jammed)

To roughly force into a small space or difficult position.
- Carburetors, too, are poorly built to stand the racket and ram-jamming they meet.1913, Farm Equipment Dealer - Volume 11, page 326
- 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.1988, Lloyd Pye Lloyd Pye, Mismatch, →ISBN, page 134
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.1909, Around the World with Taft
- This place might be work, but it sure beats ram-jamming around just for beans.2013, Penelope Williamson, Heart of the West, →ISBN, page 188

ram-jam (plural ram-jams)

A forceful poke or shove.
- A fake pass contributed five more, and ram-jams at center and savage jabs at tackle netted ten.1902, The Epworth Herald - Volume 13, page 535
- Era Elbertus tells us, "Indulge an automobile appetite with a push-cart income, and it's you for the ram-jams and stripes."1910, Iowa. Reformatory at Anamosa, The Reformatory Press - Volume 13
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...1947, Malcolm Elwin, The Pleasure Ground: A Miscellany of English Writing, page 247

Ram-jam (plural Ram-jams)

(dated, nonce-word) A person of vaguely Middle Eastern ethnicity.
- 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.1863, The Eagle: A Magazine - Volumes 3-4, page 280
- Rupees," I answered, before an admiring crowd of Ram-jams, Rajahs, and such like. “1876, Punch - Volumes 69-73, page 276

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.2004, David Allen Goodwin, No Matter What: Never Say Die, →ISBN, page 100:
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.2017, Elise Levine, Blue Field, →ISBN, page 77:

Verb
third-person singular present	ram-jams
present participle	ram-jamming
past participle	ram-jammed
past	ram-jammed
Noun
plural	ram-jams
plural	Ram-jams

What does ram-jam mean?: Ram-jam means to roughly force into a small space or difficult position.
How do you use ram-jam in a sentence?: 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.
What part of speech is ram-jam?: Ram-jam can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of ram-jam?: The past tense of ram-jam is ram-jammed.

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