rammed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of ram.

   The patrol boat rammed the smugglers' launch and forced it ashore.

   The new law was rammed through the legislature in a single night.

   Note

   One form covers both the simple past (the truck rammed the gate) and the past participle (the gate had been rammed open), with the final m doubled before the ending. Beyond the literal collision, the verb works figuratively with through: a measure is rammed through when it is forced past objection. The same spelling has become the adjective for crowded places, as in the bar was rammed.

2. 2
   adjectivecolloquial

   Full to capacity, especially with a crowd of people.

   By nine o'clock the bar was absolutely rammed, and nobody could get near the counter.

   The highway was rammed with traffic heading for the beach.

   Similarpacked, crowded, jammed, heaving, full

   Oppositeempty, deserted

   Note

   A crowd word of casual speech, it sits after be and welcomes a booster: the bar was absolutely rammed. When the crowd is named it takes with, as in rammed with traffic, and it grades, so one night can be more rammed than the last. It stretches easily from rooms to roads, and qntm's There Is No Antimemetics Division (2019) applies it to a busy road at night.

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