lam out

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lam out (third-person singular simple present lams out, present participle lamming out, simple past and past participle lammed out)

  1. (intransitive, informal, dated) Leave, depart; to run away from someone or something.
    • 1950 June 5, “Millennium Deferred”, in Time:
      Laboring men begin the Great Walkout - miners, fruit pickers, dock-wallopers, bus boys; by the thousands they quit their jobs, pocket their pills, and lam out for Florida.
    • 1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 13, column 2:
      "Now, if you're afraid I'm going to lam out with these things."
  2. (intransitive, informal) Lash out, strike out.
    • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Lot No. 249”, in Tales of Twilight and the Unseen[1], John Murray, published 1922:
      " [] If I shout, [] up you come, and lam out with your whip as hard as you can lick. Do you understand?"
  3. (transitive, informal) Bang out.

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