Lam \Lam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lammed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Lamming.] [Icel. lemja to beat, or lama to bruise, both fr.
lami, lama, lame. See Lame.]
To beat soundly; to thrash. [Obs. or Low] --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lam
n : a rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean
getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam"
[syn: getaway]
v 1: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this
man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police
showed up" [syn: run, scarper, turn tail, run
away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take
to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away]
2: give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, thresh, flail]
[also: lamming, lammed]
WordNet (r) 2.0
33 Moby Thesaurus words for "lam":
absquatulate, batter, beat, beat it, blow, breakout, decamp,
dog it, drub, duck and run, duck out, flight, getaway, hammer,
make off, paste, pelt, pound, powder, pummel, scape, scram,
skedaddle, skin out, skip, skip out, slip, split, take a powder,
take off, thrash, vamoose, wallop
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
LAM
Local Area Multicomputer (Parallel Computing)
Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
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