- a long straight piece of iron used in the past to push explosive into a gun
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See ramrod in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryramrod straight | (as) straight as a ramrod
- (of a person) with a very straight back and looking serious and formal
- Her back was ramrod straight.
- He stood there straight as a ramrod.
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