Ramp-up

Ramp-up was originally an auto industry term used to indicate when a new model was scheduled to ship out, deliver, or "ramp-up" onto auto vehicle transport trucks. Also may used in other contexts, such as when a business switches over to or begins using a new software package or new version of older software. The term ramp-up was used primarily in a time context, when something was due to occur or occurred in the past.

The news media misconstrued the meaning of ramp-up a few years ago, when interviewing auto industry people, to be synonymous with "ratchet-up", meaning to increase or "turn-up". The term is now used almost exclusively in this context.

The Chevrolet Volt is scheduled to ramp-up in late 2010.

Our company will ramped-up its new accounting software package next month.

by bastard72 August 16, 2009

ramp-up

A term used to pacify a scared audience that you are close to doing your job but have in fact done fuck all.

We have ramp-up our delivery of competence.

by Zarendarger May 15, 2020

Ramp Up

To increase something, especially the consumption of alcohol, suddenly and significantly. Can be shortened to “ramp” for conciseness.

“It’s time to ramp up the drinking. This is getting stupid.”

“It’s Friday. We’re looking at a ramp day today.”

“Ramp.”

by £RACKS-UP£ June 9, 2025

ramp up the jawn

a phrase used by BMXers expressing emotions of encouragement.

Dom, ramp up the jawn, bitch!!

by Dom P. November 5, 2002

RAMP UP THE JAWN

showin' off your new clothes/kicks/anything new

"yo, dude, i'm going to the mall to ramp up the jawn later on. you wanna come with me?"

by jklolz May 29, 2005

ramp up my dick game

The act of being more of a dick. One may feel compelled to be more of a dick if it's insinuated he is weak, beta, or too polite given the social circumstances.

There is no sexual connotation. Literal dicks and literal ramps are not involved in ramping one's dick game.

I gotta ramp up my dick game for Camsteven because she's been whipping me.

by Cristo39 November 4, 2019

gradual-ramp-up-volume greeting

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