ramp

Refers to a non-startling strategy employed whenever you are unable to unobtrusively get someone's attention or make eye-contact with him for whatever reason (maybe he's deep in a book, concentrating hard on a household/carpentry task, or using noisy equipment, and thus he does not look up/around occasionally or hear/observe your presence) and so you start out to say hello by speaking very quietly, and then cautiously raising your voice little-by-little (like some modern-day alarm-clocks do so as to wake you "gently" instead of startling you out of a sound slumber with a full-blast ringer right away) till the previously-oblivious person eventually becomes aware of your proximity and glances up.

I'd wanted to ask my elderly neighbor about my possibly carpooling with him on his grocery-shopping trip the next day, but he was so busy using his riding lawnmower that he never noticed me despite my circling around in front of him several times, so I eventually used the gradual-ramp-up-volume greeting to finally get his attention.

by QuacksO August 23, 2018

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Ramp Rat

A Hoochie or group of Hoochies who hang around boat docks. These creatures wait for strange men to pick them up and take them on their boats.

The Ramp Rat is always on the lookout for free booze, narcotics and its next victim.
They acquire random phone #s from random guys to use them for their boats.

#1 "Yoooo
Stay away from that hoe....
She's a Ramp Rat."

#2 "Did you see that Ramp Rat I picked up yesterday? Looks like its your turn today Bro"...

by BeerMan312 May 24, 2020

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