What does lam mean?
Lam means (transitive, informal) To beat or thrash..
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/læm/ · verb
(transitive, informal) To beat or thrash..
1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102, An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.
They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […]
[Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!
[…]and she was so mad and so down deep vindictive that she reported to the police some false trumped-up hysterical crazy charge, and Dean had to lam from Hoboken.
on the lam
Use lam when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lam means (transitive, informal) To beat or thrash..
Common synonyms include run, thrash, bunk, scarper.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102, An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.
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