lam

4 definitions found

lam - 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]

lam - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  lam
      n 1: 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, lam]
      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: 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
           ]
      2: give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, thresh,
         lam, flail]

lam - V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006) :

  LAM
         Local Area Multicomputer (Parallel Computing)
         

lam - 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