ramraider

English

Alternative forms

• ram-raider, ram raider

Noun

ramraider (plural ramraiders)

1. A thief who operates by ramraiding.
   • 2010, Robert Lewis, Bank of the Black Sheep, page 213:

     I'm not saying we stay here, maybe we relocate to an industrial unit somewhere, but this is a gift from fucking god. And you want to cut and run like a teenage ramraider. ·

   • 2011, Graham Johnson, Gang War:

     A 35-year-old former ramraider now worth £400 million. He's one of the wealthiest criminals in British history.

   • 2011, Kate Petty, Makeover:

     Sarah, being used to little kids, would have asked the appropriate questions, but Lianne went at it like a ramraider.

   • 2017, Jonathan Gash, Paid and Loving Eyes:

     It was along here that the ramraider had hated me and someone else, when he'd peered in and called us bastards.