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Definition of 'lam'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) lam
a hasty escape.

2. (v.i.) lam
to escape.

3. lam
to thrash

4. (v.t.) lam
to thrash.

Definition of 'lam'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) getaway, lam
a rapid escape (as by criminals)
"the thieves made a clean getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam"

2. (verb) scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away
flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
"If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up"

3. (verb) thrash, thresh, lam, flail
give a thrashing to; beat hard

Definition of 'lam'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) lam
to beat soundly; to thrash

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