ego ramp
n.— «We’ve got an oval thrust stage, and there’s people inside it in a type of pit. Then when Guns goes on, they cover it up and he has got his ego ramp to go out on. So it worked out pretty good.» —“Guns N’ Roses and Metallica bring different worldviews to their monstrous summer tour” by Jon Bream Star-Tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.) Aug. 4, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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