ramraider

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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.
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