lam
verb
[ lam ]
• hit hard; strike.
• "I'll lam you in the mouth in a minute"
Similar:
hit,
strike,
slap,
smack,
cuff,
punch,
beat,
thrash,
thump,
batter,
belabour,
drub,
hook,
pound,
smash,
slam,
welt,
pummel,
hammer,
bang,
knock,
swat,
whip,
flog,
cane,
sucker-punch,
rain blows on,
box someone's ears,
whack,
wallop,
bash,
biff,
bop,
clout,
clip,
clobber,
sock,
swipe,
crown,
lick,
give someone a (good) hiding,
belt,
tan,
lay one on,
lay into,
pitch into,
lace into,
let someone have it,
whomp,
deck,
floor,
stick one on,
dot,
slosh,
twat,
welly,
slug,
boff,
bust,
whale,
dong,
quilt,
king-hit,
smite,
swinge,
baste,
buffet,
birch,
Origin:
late 16th century: perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Norwegian and Danish lamme ‘paralyse’.
lam
verb
• escape; flee.
• "we'd better lam before the cops show up!"
Origin:
late 19th century: from lam1.
Lam.
abbreviation
• Lamentations (in biblical references).
on the lam
• in flight, especially from the police.
• "the boys were on the lam for four days before they were caught"
