lam n : a rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam" [syn: getaway]

1 flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" [syn: run, scarper, turn tail, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away]

2 give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, thresh, flail] [also: lamming, lammed]

English

Pronunciation

• /læm/
• Rhymes with: -æm

Noun

1. Used in the expression on the lam to mean that a person is fleeing law enforcement, possibly in hiding.
2. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, . It is preceded by and followed by .

Danish

Adjective

1. lame

Noun

1. lamb

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

1. young of a goat or sheep

Adjective

(lamme)

1. unable to move, paralyzed
2. very drunk

Old English

Etymology

West *laima

Noun

1. loam

Old High German

Etymology

Common , whence also Old English lama, Old Norse lami

Adjective

1. lame

Swedish

Adjective

lam

1. A person who is, by medical reasons, unable to move any limbs; lame
2. Inefficient, imperfect, almost ridiculously so.

   Example:

   • Det var ett lamt försök. Gör ditt bästa istället! That was a lame attempt. Do your best instead!

See also

• förlamad
• lamslagen

Volapük

vo-noun lam

Etymology

Arm and arm

Noun

1. arm
2. blade
3. sharp blade

Lam and its various forms has several meanings.

lām

• Lām, a letter of the Arabic alphabet

Lam

• A part of the phrase "on the lam"
• Mor lam, an ancient Lao form of song in Laos

Lam saravane music genre

Lam luang music genre

• Lam, Germany, a town in Bavaria

LAM

• Lactational amenorrhea method, a contraceptive method
• Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique - National airline of Mozambique
• LAM, an internet slang acronym meaning "leave a message"
• LAM, the International Air Transport Association airport code for Los Alamos Airport
• LAM/MPI, an MPI programming environment and development system for heterogeneous computers on a network
• Land-Air 'Mech, a variety of BattleMech in the BattleTech board game
• Loadable Authentication Modules, an authentication framework used by IBM AIX
• Lobe Attachment Module - a type of token ring connection.
• London After Midnight, an L.A. Band.
• Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, a rare lung disease
• the collection code of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
• Lightweight Attack Muniton, a weapon in the computer game Deus Ex
• Lipoarabinomannan, a glycolipid associated with the cell wall of Mycobacterium tubercolosis

Lam.

May be an abbreviation for:

• The Book of Lamentations in the Tanakh.
• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), French naturalist.
• Short for Lamborghini.

Surname

India

Lam is a surname in Southern India.

Vietnamese

Lâm is a common Vietnamese surname.

Andrew Lam, writer

Lam Quang Thi, member of the South Vietnamese military

Charles Tran Van Lam, politician

Tony Lam, Vietnamese American politician

Lam Nguyen, a student at Cal State University of Fullerton

Cantonese

Lam is a common Cantonese (Hong Kong) surname. It is a variant of Mandarin Chinese Lin.

James Lam, author and consultant

Wilfredo Lam, artist

Ringo Lam, film director

Chet Lam, singer/songwriter

Carol Lam, ex. US Attorney

George Lam (林子祥), singer

Richard Lam, lyricist

Tony Lam, politician

Lam Kor-wan, serial killer

Anthony Lam, fire fighter

Adrian Lam, coach

Eman Lam, musician

Sarah Lam, actress

Pat Lam, rugby player

Lam Bun, radio commentator

David Lam, Lieutenant Governor

Sandy Lam, singer

Derek Lam, fashion designer

Stephen Lam, government official

Raymond Lam, actor

Karena Lam (林嘉欣), actress

Dale Lam, choreographer

Chua Lam, newspaper columnist

Yin-ling Lam, news broadcaster

Bun-Ching Lam, concert pianist and composer

Roden Won Log Lam, Hulk, conservationist, groupie

Lam is also an uncommon (South East Asia) surname. It is a variant of Mandarin Chinese Lan literary means "blue".

Other nationalities

• Adrian Lam, Australian rugby league player
• Jan Lam, Polish journalist
• Simon S. Lam, American professor

Fictional people

• Carolyn Lam, character in Stargate SG-1
• Donald Lam, Erle Stanley Gardner detective

See also

• Tai Lam Country Park, Hong Kong
• Po Lam, area of Hong Kong
• Lam Research, semiconductor design company
• Phra Lak Phra Lam, Lao version of the Ramayana
• Monts de Lam, a department of Chad
• Lum Invader, a fictional character from the manga and anime series Urusei Yatsura whose name is sometimes romanized as "Lam"

References

absquatulate, batter, beat, beat it, blow, breakout, decamp, dog it, drub, duck and run, duck out, flight, getaway, hammer, make off, paste, pelt, pound, powder, pummel, scape, scram, skedaddle, skin out, skip, skip out, slip, split, take a powder, take off, thrash, vamoose, wallop