lam

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: lam

1	v	give a thrashing to; beat hard
2	v n	flee; take to one's heels; cut and run a rapid escape (as by criminals)

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: lam

: bat, clobber, cream, drub, lick, thrash
beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

Type of:: beat, beat up, work over
give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression

Synonyms:: break away, bunk, escape, fly the coop, head for the hills, hightail it, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, turn tail

Types:: show 9 types...; hide 9 types...; flee, fly, take flight
run away quickly; skedaddle
run away, as if in a panic; break
make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing; stampede
run away in a stampede; abscond, absquatulate, bolt, decamp, go off, make off, run off
run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; elope, run off
run away secretly with one's beloved; break loose, escape, get away
run away from confinement; high-tail
retreat at full speed; defect, desert
desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army

“after the expose he had to take it on the lam”

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