Lam

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lam \Lam\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lammed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Lamming}.] [Icel. lemja to beat, or lama to bruise, both fr.
     lami, lama, lame. See {Lame}.]
     To beat soundly; to thrash. [Obs. or Low] --Beau. & Fl.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lam
       n : a rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean
           getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam"
           [syn: {getaway}]
       v 1: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this
            man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police
            showed up" [syn: {run}, {scarper}, {turn tail}, {run
            away}, {hightail it}, {bunk}, {head for the hills}, {take
            to the woods}, {escape}, {fly the coop}, {break away}]
       2: give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: {thrash}, {thresh}, {flail}]
       [also: {lamming}, {lammed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "lam":
     absquatulate, batter, beat, beat it, blow, breakout, decamp,
     dog it, drub, duck and run, duck out, flight, getaway, hammer,
     make off, paste, pelt, pound, powder, pummel, scape, scram,
     skedaddle, skin out, skip, skip out, slip, split, take a powder,
     take off, thrash, vamoose, wallop
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  LAM
       Local Area Multicomputer (Parallel Computing)