ramfication.html - {v. phr.}, {informal} To force you to do or agree to (something not wanted or liked.) * /We didn't want Mr. Bly to speak at our banquet, but the planning committee shoved him down our throats./ * /The president was against the idea, but the club members rammed it down his throat./

ramfication.html - See: SHOVE DOWN ONE'S THROAT.

ramfication.html - {v. phr.} To chatter on idly and without a purpose. * /When Ted has too much to drink, he always rambles on about the good old days./

ramfication.html - noun
Also written rambo (Lifestyle and Leisure) (War and Weaponry) A person who resembles the film character Rambo in attitudes or behaviour; specifically, either a macho male type who practises survival techniques and likes to live as a 'loner' or a person who advocates or carries out violent retribution. Etymology: An allusive use of the name of the hero of David Morrell's novel First Blood (1972), a character widely popularized by the films First Blood (1982) and Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985). History and Usage: In the novel and films, the Rambo character is a Vietnam veteran who lives as a loner and is bent on violent retribution for the wrongs that he thinks society has done him. By the middle of the eighties the name Rambo was being used in a number of transferred contexts, often in derivatives such as the adjectives Ramboesque and Rambo-like, to refer to things as diverse as international diplomacy and paintball games, but which all seemed to reflect the world-view of this character . The word was used attributively as well, almost passing into an adjective meaning 'savage': any violent killing, especially when carried out by a person in combat dress, could be described as a Rambo killing, and the newspapers nicknamed Michael Ryan, who carried out the Hungerford massacre of 1987 (see survivalism ), the Rambo killer . Given the bomb-'em-kill-'em suggestions pulsing from the typewriters of 100 literate Rambos, a boycott of the airport was the most reasonable act suggested. Washington Post 6 July 1985, section A, p.
19 To lawyers, as to other Americans, Ronald Reagan apparently has become the stars and stripes for ever. By his own oft-stated, Rambo-like standards, the hostage crisis was a downer. There was none of the threatened 'swift and effective retribution'. Washington Post 9 July 1985, section A, p.
2 Sensitive to charges of encouraging a new generation of Rambos, the companies organising the games insist more excitement than aggression is stimulated. Guardian 3 July 1989, p.
20 One of the first victims, World War 2 veteran Pat Surgrue, was attacked by a 2.5m 'rambo' roo [kangaroo] on his front lawn. Australasian Post 17 Feb. 1990, p. 14

ramfication.html - abbr.
1 (in the UK) Royal Academy of Music.
2 Computing random-access memory.

ramfication.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 an uncastrated male sheep, a tup.
2 (the Ram) the zodiacal sign or constellation Aries.
3 hist. a = battering ram (see BATTER(1) )). b a beak projecting from the bow of a battleship, for piercing the sides of other ships. c a battleship with such a beak.
4 the falling weight of a pile-driving machine.
5 a a hydraulic water-raising or lifting machine. b the piston of a hydrostatic press. c the plunger of a force-pump.

--v.

tr. (rammed, ramming)
1 force or squeeze into place by pressure.
2 (usu. foll. by down, in, into) beat down or drive in by heavy blows.
3 (of a ship, vehicle, etc.) strike violently, crash against.
4 (foll. by against, at, on, into) dash or violently impel.

ram home stress forcefully (an argument, lesson, etc.).

rammer n. [OE ram(m), perh. rel. to ON rammr strong]