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ram-raider en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ramraider.
    alt of ramraider
    • Other managers pointed out that more often than not this type of shutter can be levered from the wall easily or pushed into a window by a ram-raider; that shutters were difficult to operate manually and prone to operational faults; that they acted as something of a magnet to graffiti 'artists'; and that they prevented goods from remaining on display when stores were shut. 2016, A. Beck, A. Willis, Crime and Security: Managing the Risk to Safe Shopping, page 211:
    • Terry Eagleton, the most accomplished ram-raider in the shopping mall of ideas, the ultimate Critic of Bray, illustrates this fancy footwork brilliantly in a recent article in The Times Literary Supplement. 1999, Raymond Tallis, Theorrhoea and After, page xii:
    • Man, to ram-raider, 'Why have you painted your car green on one side and yellow on the other?' Ram-raider, 'Because I like to hear the witnesses contradict each other.' 2010, Mike Haskins, Stephen Arnott, Man Walks Into A Bar: The Ultimate Collection of Jokes and One-Liners, page 64:
    • Whereas the amateur ram-raider tends to work at night and favours premises that are empty, the professional will target open premises during the day. 2015, Noel 'Razor' Smith, The Criminal Alphabet: An A-Z of Prison Slang:

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