Bumping the lamp

To go above and beyond expectations when completing a given task/project.
A genericized phrase originally used within the animation industry and the film industry as a whole. Based on a scene from the 1988 mixed live-action/animated film 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' in which the main live-action character, Eddie Valiant, bumps into a ceiling lamp whilst handcuffed to the main animated character, Roger Rabbit, causing the lamp to continually swing back and forth throughout the remainder of the scene.
The term refers to how the animators went on to meticulously hand-draw unique shadows for the animated character for every frame of the scene.
The phrase went on to become a company mythos for the Walt Disney Company, then as a guiding principle within the greater film industry, and now sees use generally.
We follow the mythos of 'bumping the lamp' with the service at our veterinary practice.
by BronzeManul June 12, 2019
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Nigga lamp

Proper noun;

A porno where a black man dressed up as a lamp in a corner where a pornstar didn't see his entire body. The mother would then look at the lamp and not say anything before she would walk away. The pornstar is then plowed.
Example one:
Mom: "That's a weird lamp"
Daughter: "Um.... It's a new lamp"

Example 2:
Boy one: "have you seen nigga lamp?"
Boy two: "Yeah that shit is whack."
by Poop 1218 May 19, 2020
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lamped up

by mynameisnotcraig December 14, 2011
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amber lamps

a specially equipped motor vehicle, airplane, ship, etc., for carrying sick or injured people, usually to a hospital
Oh, you leakin'.
Call da amber lamps!
by Featherlight910 February 17, 2010
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Lamp oil

Something used fuel lamps and to be sold
Lamp oil rope bombs you want it? It yours my friend as long as you have enough rupies
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smoking lamp

1. (on sailing ships) a lamp from which a pipe may be lit
2. (figuratively) permission to smoke
"Light smoking lamp" (giving permission for crew to smoke) and "out smoking lamp"
(denying permission) are listed among the 104 bugle calls in the US Navy's "Manual for Buglers", 1953 edition.
by Plebe Tribune November 08, 2008
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amber lamps

A mispronounced version of "ambulance" following the AC Transit bus fight.
Bring amber lamps
by precure787 April 11, 2017
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