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 22, 2018
Get the gradual-ramp-up-volume greetingmug. Remote Access Machine on Physical hardware. An acronym to describe the virtual machine equivalent to being a physical machine. RAMPs are separate physical servers mainly remote accessed into from another computer. Often used for malware examination without risk of virtual machine detection.
by Jim Philip August 25, 2024
Get the RAMPmug. by mervie December 20, 2018
Get the ramp stampmug. Someone who is trying to maintain a relationship they don't want. Their zodiac sign looks like the off-ramp icon on a map
They keep asking when we're gonna break up but they won't break things off, I think they're just an off-ramp
by platrelefs December 11, 2024
Get the off-rampmug. by LDrat January 29, 2022
Get the Ramp agentmug. 
by BraddyBoy October 12, 2024
Get the Chocolate Rampmug.