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lam
1[ lam ]
verb (used with object)
- to beat; thrash.
verb (used without object)
- to beat; strike; thrash (usually followed by out or into ).
lam
2[ lam ]
noun
- a hasty escape; flight.
verb (used without object)
- to run away quickly; escape; flee:
I'm going to lam out of here as soon as I've finished.
±ôÄå³¾
3[ lahm ]
noun
- the 23rd letter of the Arabic alphabet.
Lam
4[ lahm, lam ]
noun
- °Â¾±Â·´Ú°ù±ð·»å´Ç [wi-, frey, -doh] or Wil·fre·do [wil-, frey, -doh], 1902–82, Cuban painter in Europe.
lam.
5abbreviation for
- laminated.
Lam.
6abbreviation for
- Lamentations.
Lam.
1abbreviation for
- Lamentations
lam
2/ ±ôæ³¾ /
verb
- tr to thrash or beat
- intr; usually foll by into or out to make a sweeping stroke or blow
lam
3/ ±ôæ³¾ /
noun
- a sudden flight or escape, esp to avoid arrest
- on the lam
- making an escape
- in hiding
verb
- intr to escape or flee
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of lam1
Origin of lam2
Idioms and Phrases
- on the lam, escaping, fleeing, or hiding, especially from the police:
He's been on the lam ever since he escaped from jail.
- take it on the lam, to flee or escape in great haste:
The swindler took it on the lam and was never seen again.
More idioms and phrases containing lam
see on the lam .Example Sentences
A gifted computer programmer, avid skydiver and motorcycle racer, Landi had been a man on the lam for roughly a decade.
What follows are musical snapshots of an artist, who on the lam from himself, hones a style that will forever change the landscape of modern music.
Durst may have never faced a Galveston, Texas jury if he hadn’t been caught trying to steal a grocery store sandwich while he was on the lam.
The two animals on the lam caused an unusual traffic jam Saturday afternoon as they wove through slowing traffic and then stopped it on Interstate 90 in the downtown Cleveland area.
Since the macaque went on the lam, his fate had drawn reporters who waited nearby for updates on the monkey’s location.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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