"ram-raider" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ram-raiders [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ram-raider (plural ram-raiders)
  1. Alternative form of ramraider Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: ramraider
    Sense id: en-ram-raider-en-noun-8cfWvHez Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1999, Raymond Tallis, Theorrhoea and After, page xii:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2010, Mike Haskins, Stephen Arnott, Man Walks Into A Bar: The Ultimate Collection of Jokes and One-Liners, page 64:",
          "text": "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.'",
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        {
          "ref": "2015, Noel 'Razor' Smith, The Criminal Alphabet: An A-Z of Prison Slang:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2016, A. Beck, A. Willis, Crime and Security: Managing the Risk to Safe Shopping, page 211:",
          "text": "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.",
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