ramrod
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verb (used with object)
4.
to exert discipline and authority on.
5.
to strike or injure with or as if with a ramrod.
6.
to accomplish or put into action by force, intimidation, etc.: to ramrod a bill through Congress.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a rod for cleaning the barrel of a rifle or other small firearms |
| 2. | a rod for ramming in the charge of a muzzle-loading firearm |
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Example sentences
The wooden ramrod is horn-tipped and at the other end has a bullet worm enclosed within a screw cap.
He sketched a hasty portrait of a wasted crone with a scornful grimace and a ramrod spine.
The army lolls and longs for the shade, of which some get a hand's breadth, from a shelter tent stuck upon a ramrod.
The once-bustling small installation and the ramrod- straight general are both gone now.
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