lam

verb

1. (informal, transitive)To beat or thrash.

   “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.”

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

2. (dated, intransitive, slang)To flee or run away.

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

   “[…]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.”

noun

1. (slang)A flight or escape.

   “on the lam”

2. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).
3. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of light antiarmor/antiarmour missile.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of land attack missile.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of)Abbreviation of loitering attack missile.
6. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of lactational amenorrhea method, a method of birth control through breastfeeding.

name

1. A surname from Cantonese.