lam

lam
I
v Slang. Usu. lam out or into
beat, strike, thrash, batter, pound, lay on, pummel, pelt, Sl. paste; flog, lash, switch, birch, scourge; strap, thresh, flail, spank, Inf. tan [s.o.'s] hide, Inf. trim, Inf. thump, Inf. lace, Inf. lambaste, Inf. whale, Sl. whomp; hit, smite, thwack, slap, smack; punch, knock, cuff, buffet, box, sandbag, Inf. clout, Inf. slug, Inf. whack, crown, Sl. conk, Sl. bash, Sl. belt, Sl. sock, U.S. Sl. biff, Sl. bop; maul, manhandle, rough up, Inf. give it to, Sl. knock around or about, Sl. give [s.o.] the business, Sl. give [s.o.] the works, Sl. give [s.o.] what for, Sl. work over, Sl. let [s.o.] have it, Sl. lay into; cudgel, fustigate, bludgeon, baste, cane, bastinado, club, hammer, sledge hammer; trounce, drub, Inf. wallop, Inf. whale, Sl. clobber, Sl. pin [s.o.'s] ears back.
II
n Slang.
1. escape, flight, running away, bolting, decampment, Inf. making oneself scarce, Sl. getting the hell out; Sl. disappearing act, Sl. hasty retreat, Sl. scramming, Sl. skedaddle, Sl. skedaddling, absquatulation; French leave, absence without leave, AWOL; break, breakout, jailbreak, prisonbreak, Inf. getaway.
2. on the lam
escaping, fleeing, running for cover, on the run, at liberty; escaped, on the loose, fled, flown, at large, scot-free; hiding, going to earth or ground, Inf. holing up, in hiding, hidden out, lying hid, Inf. ly ing low.
3. take it on the lam
escape, flee, get away, make good one's escape, gain one's liberty, slip away, run off or away, run for one's life, take to one's heels, Inf. make tracks, Inf. make a getaway, Inf. cut out or cut and run, Inf. hightail it; get out, break loose, Inf. bail out, Inf. leap over the wall, Inf. jump, Inf. skip, Sl. bust loose, Sl. fly the coop; break out, break jail, escape from prison.

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