Other forms: rampages
A rampage is a wild rush of violent, destructive behaviour. Nothing planned, and a great deal broken.
It nearly always appears in the phrase on the rampage, which is where the word lives. It suits crowds, individuals and, in headlines, animals that have escaped. The verb rampages through a place. The word carries a note of chaos rather than calculation, which is what separates it from an attack, and elephants and bulls are described this way as readily as people.
1nounrampageA period of violent, uncontrolled and destructive behaviour.
“The two of them went on a rampage through the town centre.”
Scots
rampage
English, today
rampage
From Scots rampage, equivalent to ramp + -age. Perhaps influenced by Middle English rampnen (“to force, ram”), from Old English hrampian, from Proto-West Germanic hrampōn (“to obstruct, hinder”), see ramp.
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