lamp

noun

1. A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
2. A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
3. A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
4. An eye.
5. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of loop-mediated isothermal amplification.
6. (abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable)Acronym of lysosome-associated membrane glycoprotein.

verb

1. (UK, slang)To hit, clout, belt, wallop.

   “Another man said, “If someone [a customer]^([sic]) gave me loads of hassle, I'd end up lamping them.” Several of them, in fact, had lost their jobs when they lamped the boss.”

   “All for the pleasure of lamping a twat in the face.”

2. (Ireland, UK)To hunt at night using a lamp, during which bright lights are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
3. (US, slang)To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.

   “I'm in my Flavmobile cold lamping. I took a G upstate cold camping. To the Poconos, we call a hideaways. A bag of franks and a bag of Frito-Lays.”

4. To make into a table lamp, said of a vase or urn, etc.

name

1. (Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP/Python/Perl: a popular combination of open source software for use as a web server.
2. A surname.