Meaning of ram-jam | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A forceful poke or shove.
2. A person of vaguely Middle Eastern ethnicity.
   dated, nonce-word
3. A person who forces his or her way around.

Examples

“A fake pass contributed five more, and ram-jams at center and savage jabs at tackle netted ten.”

“Era Elbertus tells us, "Indulge an automobile appetite with a push-cart income, and it's you for the ram-jams and stripes."”

“An' a ram-jam now Git alon, Old Bones!”

“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 gear," the rowdier ram-jams, and the "dim, moon-eyed fishes" that stare at them decorously.”

“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.”

“Rupees," I answered, before an admiring crowd of Ram-jams, Rajahs, and such like. “”

“He lives in the New Forest, Lady Ellington, and if when you are passing you hear the puffs of a loud steam-engine somewhere near Brockenhurst you will know it is Tom doing deep breathing. He expects in time to become a Ram-jam or something, by breathing himself into Raj-pan-puta.”

“No problem, I was still 'black and beautiful', and they were something else, Indian or Pakistani; 'Ram-jams' was what we called them or 'those at the corner house'.”

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