Heard: "I have _ramped_ and raved!" [NT]

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Dec 23 22:29:50 UTC 2012


On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Douglas G. Wilson <douglas at nb.net> wrote:
> MW3 shows "ramp and rage" in a citation exemplifying the verb "ramp".

What is it that "_ramp_ and rage" means, according to MW3since it's
apparently "not* merely a tip of the slung?

 Youneverknow. <sigh!>:-(

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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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