Green’s Dictionary of Slang

ram v.1

[ram n.1 ]

to have sexual intercourse.

[UK]J. Day Blind Beggar of Bednall-Green Act IV: You shall likewise see the amorous conceits and Love songs betwixt Captain Pod of Py-corner, and Mrs. Rump of Ram-alley.
[UK]Wandring Whore I 10: Mrs. Simpson in Ram-Alley, will furnish you with fit rooms to do the business in.
[UK] ‘Nancy Dawson’ in Nancy Dawson’s Cabinet of Songs 10: So long as she good ramming got, / All right, says Nancy Dawson.
[UK]C. Deveureux Venus in India I 41: You are a good poke! and no mistake! Oh! you know how to do it. No fellow ever rams like that without he has been taught!
Astrid Cane 19: The sensation is torturous but yet quite delicious when the waiting knob slips in [...] It is called corking, or sheathing, or ramming, or what you will.
[US] in E. Cray Erotic Muse (1992) 69: I fired off a broadside until my shot was spent, / Then rammed that fire ship’s waterline until my ram was bent.
[UK]G.R. Bacchus Pleasure Bound ‘Ashore’ 100: The ‘bo’sun’ grew less courtly. He rammed with vigour. He grunted with coarse glee.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 193: For two-bits a whack / She’d lay on her back, / And let the cowboys ram it up her crack.
[US]A.I. Bezzerides Thieves’ Market 17: Oh boy, would I like to ram it to her.
[US]S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 482: The other guy has been ramming her and been her fancy man.
[US](con. 1952) in Randolph & Legman Ozark Folksongs and Folklore (1992) II 644: If all the young ladies were sheep in the clover, / And I were a ram, I would ram them all over.
[US]C. Bukowski Erections, Ejaculations etc. 146: Then I leaned back and rammed rammed her, rammed her, had her head bobbing like some crazy puppet.
[UK]K. Sampson Powder 57: The last time he saw her she was mumbling to herself, almost chanting this kind of verse or prayer as he was ramming her.
[UK]D. Mitchell Black Swan Green 154: He needs a good ramming with a shiny hard truncheon!
[Scot]I. Welsh Decent Ride 191: A posh, sexy-looking aulder burd, that ah’d love tae ram senseless.
[US](con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 31: ‘Jack the K is ramming Marilyn Monroe’.

In exclamations

ram it! (also ram it up your arse/ass!)

1. (orig. US) an excl. of dismissal, ‘go to hell!’.

[US]R.L. Bellem ‘Dead Don’t Dream’ in Hollywood Detective July 🌐 You can take your case and ram it [...] I’ll go get a job digging sewers before I handle an investigation for a guy of your cheap ilk.
[US](con. 1943–5) A. Murphy To Hell and Back (1950) 38: You can take Italy and ram it.
[US]R. Leveridge Walk on the Water 99: Jesus! Well they can ram their YMCA stuff. Ram it. And they know where.
[US]S. Ace Stand On It (1979) 212: I’m going to ram it right up yer ass, buddy-boy.
[US]Jackson & Christian Death Row 285: Your kangaroo courts, you can stick it and ram it.
[US]N. Heard House of Slammers 33: ‘[I propose] A meetin’ with the warden and the chief deputy to discuss our grievances.’ [...] ‘S’pose they tell us to ram ’em?’.

2. (UK black) an expression of praise, encouragement.

[UK]R. Hewitt White Talk Black Talk 118: Mi com fe ram it up a bing bong bing bong! / Me com fe mash it up-a! / Me come fe love it up-a! / Ram it Mr Operator! / Do it Mr Operator! / Rock it Mr Operator!