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Violence that forgot to make a plan and is proud of it.
means A spell of wild, destructive, uncontrolled behavior or violent rushing about.
from Rooted in Scottish English from 'ramp,' meaning to rear up or storm about menacingly — itself traceable to Old French 'ramper,' to climb or creep. The '-age' suffix bolted on sometime in the 18th century, turning a verb of rearing and lunging into a noun for the whole chaotic spree. The word kept the ramp's sense of rising up and charging forward, just scaled up into a full-blown tear.
- origin
- Scottish ramp, meaning to rear up angrily
- key trait
- unstoppable, not strategic
- video games
- literal point-scoring destruction in Rampage 1986
- contrast word
- rampart, same root, opposite intent