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)
- (intransitive, informal, dated) Leave, depart.
- 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."
- (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?"
- (transitive, informal) Bang out.
- 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 13, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 159:
- 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.