lam
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Is lam a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive, informal) To beat or thrash.Examples: "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 […]"informaltransitive
2. (intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.Examples: "[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."datedintransitiveslang
noun (English)
1. (slang) A flight or escape.Examples: "on the lam"slang
noun (English)
1. (military, weaponry) Abbreviation of light antiarmor/antiarmour missile.abbreviationalt-of
2. (military, weaponry) Abbreviation of land attack missile.abbreviationalt-of
3. (military, weaponry) Abbreviation of loitering attack missile.abbreviationalt-of
Definition source: Wiktionary