lam out

verb — 3 senses

lam out

verb

1

Dated, Informal Leave, depart; to run away from someone or something.

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:
"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:

2

Informal Lash 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

Informal Bang 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:

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