Found 4 hits - Term: lam, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
see also:
lammed lamming lame
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
getaway run scarper turn tail run away hightail it
bunk head for the hills take to the woods escape fly the coop
break away thrash thresh flail lamming
lammed
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
- [4] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)
lam
local area multicomputer parallel computing
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