lam out
English
Verb
lam out (third-person singular simple present lams out, present participle lamming out, simple past and past participle lammed out)
- (intransitive, informal, dated) Leave, depart.
- (intransitive, informal) Lash out, strike out.
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, "Lot No. 249" in Tales of Twilight and the Unseen, John Murray, 1922, [2]
- " […] If I shout, […] up you come, and lam out with your whip as hard as you can lick. Do you understand?"
- 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, "Lot No. 249" in Tales of Twilight and the Unseen, John Murray, 1922, [2]
- (transitive, informal) Bang out.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, Chapter 13, p. 159, [3]
- Next day he corned Chum Frink and crowed, "Well, old son, I finished it last evening! Just lammed it out! I used to think you writing-guys must have a hard job making up pieces, but Lord, it's a cinch.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York: P.F. Collier & Son, Chapter 13, p. 159, [3]