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Meanings of lam in English

Portuguese
meter o rabo entre as pernas
Catalan
escapolir-se

Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run.

      meter o rabo entre as pernas
      Catalan
      estomacar

      Give a thrashing to; beat hard.

            estomacar
            Portuguese
            fuga
            Catalan
            fugida
            Spanish
            polvorosa

            A rapid escape (as by criminals)

                  fuga
                  Usage of lam in English
                  1
                  Cash and calls weren't the only thing Massino got on the lam.
                  King of the godfathers: "big joey" massino and the fall of the b...
                  2
                  Stinker is a bargee, but he was quite right to lam me.
                  The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
                  3
                  We're both on the lam now. He glanced idly toward the woman.
                  The wrong venus
                  4
                  I'm liable to lam your head off, threatened the big man sullenly.
                  Steve Yeager
                  5
                  De way that gal lam me across the head was a caution!
                  Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
                  6
                  We'll lam 'em straight back to the Tennessee again-seeif we don't!
                  Ride Proud, Rebel!
                  7
                  And her husband was on the lam from a bunch of mobsters.
                  Gulf coast girl: original title, scorpion reef
                  8
                  Probably thought you were going to lose and took it on the lam.
                  The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
                  9
                  And it was easy to see that she already liked Peter Hal lam.
                  Danielle Steel
                  10
                  I know ut; here's where the frindly lam'post hild me in its arrums.
                  The Christmas Angel
                  11
                  One of these mutations is a small deletion internal to the lamB gene.
                  Pubmed
                  12
                  Right now we gotta lam outta here, before somebody notices us what shouldn't.
                  The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
                  13
                  She's on the lam now, but Mike and I are on her trail.
                  French pressed
                  14
                  The Solar Guard thinks Manning took it on the lam from Ganymede, right?
                  Treachery in Outer Space
                  15
                  Ricca and Campagna promptly went on the lam, probably to Hollywood.
                  The outfit: the role of chicago's underworld in the shaping of m...
                  16
                  Jimmy's childhood was spent either behind bars or on the lam and stealing.
                  Wiseguy
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