Lam

Quick meaning: Lam is a verb meaning (transitive, informal) To beat or thrash.

Meaning

(transitive, informal) To beat or thrash.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
2. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).
3. (slang) A flight or escape.

Example Sentences

[Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!

They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […]

[…]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.

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.

Word Forms

• lams
• lamming
• lammed
• lamm

Synonyms for lam

Depending on context, synonyms include run, thrash, bunk, scarper, thresh, getaway.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include thrash, run, scarper, run away, getaway, flail.

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