lam out

present singular third person lams out · participle present lamming out · participle past lammed out · past lammed out

1. datedinformalintransitiveLeave, depart; to run away from someone or something.

   "Now, if you're afraid I'm going to lam out with these things."

   1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 13, column 2

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   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.

   1950 June 5, “Millennium Deferred”, in Time

2. informalintransitiveLash out, strike out.

   "[…] 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, published 1922

3. informaltransitiveBang out.

   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, chapter XIII, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 159