lam out

lam out (third-person singular simple present lams out, present participle lamming out, simple past and past participle lammed out)

1. (intransitive, informal, dated) Leave, depart.
   • 1950 June 5, “Millennium Deferred”, in Time:

     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.

   • 1957 May, Jim Thompson, Alfred Hitchcock's Suspense Magazine, page 13, column 2:

     "Now, if you're afraid I'm going to lam out with these things."

2. (intransitive, informal) Lash out, strike out.
   • 1892, Arthur Conan Doyle, “Lot No. 249”, in Tales of Twilight and the Unseen‎, John Murray, published 1922:

     " […] If I shout, […] up you come, and lam out with your whip as hard as you can lick. Do you understand?"

3. (transitive, informal) Bang out.
   • 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 13, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC, page 159:

     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.

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