ramped

Verb

ramp (third-person singular simple present ramps, present participle ramping, simple past and past participle ramped)

1. To behave violently; to rage.
   • Mick raged and ramped at the barred door till his voice failed,1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 196
2. (slang, transitive) To swindle or rob violently.
   • In English slang, to ramp was to swindle or rob.[2002, William Safire, w:The New York Times Magazine
3. (Australia, slang, transitive) To search a prisoner or a prisoner's cell.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 28
5. (intransitive, obsolete) 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: […]1640, John Parkinson, “Lathyrus. The Great Wilde Cicheling or Pease Everlasting.”, in Theatrum Botanicum: The Theater of Plants. Or, An Herball of a Large Extent: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes...
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To stand in a rampant position.
   • And that lyon gaped wyde and came vpon hym raumppynge to haue slayne hym.[1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum i”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book IX (in Middle English), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich]...

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