1. [N. Amer, informal] Flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
   "When the police arrived, the criminals had to lam";
   - scat [informal], run, scarper [Brit, informal], turn tail [informal], run away, hightail it [N. Amer, informal], bunk [informal], head for the hills [informal], take to the woods [informal], escape, fly the coop [informal], break away, leg it [Brit, informal]
    
2. Beat hard and repeatedly, esp. with a whip, cane, etc.
   "The boxer lammed his opponent";
   - thrash, thresh, flail

1. A rapid escape (as by criminals)
   "after the expose he had to take it on the lam";
   - getaway

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Derived forms: lammed, lamming, lams

Type of: beat, beat up, escape, flight, go away, go forth, leave, off [informal], work over [informal]

Encyclopedia: Lam, Mike