ram-packed
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.94 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of ram-pack
adj
Packed by means of high pressure compressing the contents.
adj
Packed or filled tightly; jam-packed.
Example Sentences
- "It provides a second stage of filtration, after the oil has passed through the ram-packed virgin cotton filtering material."
- "This is ram-packed at 175-psi to insure uniform density and to avoid possibility of channeling."
- "The design and use of the hydraulic ram-packed garbage collection body style should be regulated to prevent such overloaded vehicles from traveling on public roadways."
- "The new Dodge Red Ram V-Eight engine is ram-packed with power!"
- "Friday evening, and the old country bus was ram-packed with market women and school children as usual."
- "More about the action: Because this video works on a loop it has to be ram-packed with great little scenes, some that are timed to reach a climax just as the film reaches the end of its loop."
Etymology
From Ram + packed, originally (since at least the 1940s) literal, referring to something packed with a ram. (Possibly reinforced by the rhyming synonym jam-packed.)
Inflected Forms
more ram-packed (comparative)
most ram-packed (superlative)