ram-raider

English

Noun

ram-raider (plural ram-raiders)

1. Alternative form of ramraider
   • 1999, Raymond Tallis, Theorrhoea and After, page xii:

     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.

   • 2010, Mike Haskins, Stephen Arnott, Man Walks Into A Bar: The Ultimate Collection of Jokes and One-Liners, page 64:

     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.'

   • 2015, Noel 'Razor' Smith, The Criminal Alphabet: An A-Z of Prison Slang:

     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.

   • 2016, A. Beck, A. Willis, Crime and Security: Managing the Risk to Safe Shopping, page 211:

     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.