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Africa, nyanza, Chiefly Brit. Dial. mere.
lam', v. Slang. Usu.
lam out or
into beat, strike, thrash, batter, pound, lay on, pummel, pelt, SI. paste; flog, lash, switch, birch, scourge; strap, thresh, flail, spank, Inf. tan [s.o.'s] hide, Inf. trim, Inf. thump, Inf. lace, Inf. lambaste, Inf. whale, SI. whomp; hit, smite, thwack, slap, smack; punch, knock, cuff, buffet, box, sandbag, Inf. clout, Inf. slug, Inf. whack, crown, SI. conk, SI. bash, SI. belt, SI. sock, U.S. SI. biff, SI. bop; maul, manhandle, rough up, Inf. give it to, SI. knock around or about, SI. give [s.o.] the business, SI. give [s.o.] the works, SI. give [s.o.] what for, SI. work over, Si. let [s.o.] have it, SI. lay into; cudgel, fustigate, bludgeon, baste, cane, bastinado, club, hammer, sledge hammer; trounce, drub, Inf. wallop, Inf. whale, SI. clobber, SI. pin [s.o.'s] ears back.
lam2, n. Slang. 1. escape, flight, running away, bolting, decampment, Inf. making oneself scarce, SI. getting the hell out; SI. disappearing act, SI. hasty retreat, SI. scramming, SI. skedaddle, SI. skedaddling, absquatulation; French leave, absence without leave, AWOL; break, breakout, jailbreak, prisonbreak, Inf. getaway.
2. on the lam escaping, fleeing, running for cover, on the run, at liberty; escaped, on the loose, fled, flown, at large, scot-free; hiding, going to earth or ground, Inf. holing up, in hiding, hidden out, lying hid, Inf. ly ing low.
3. take it on the lam escape, flee, get away, make good one's escape, gain one's liberty, slip away, run off or away, run for one's life, take to one's heels, Inf. make tracks, Inf. make a getaway, Inf. cut out or cut and run, Inf hightail it; get out, break loose, Inf. bail out, Inf. leap over the wall, Inf. jump, Inf. skip, SI. bust loose, SI. fly the coop; break out, break jail, escape from prison.
lamb, n. 1. lambkin, cosset, ewe lamb, yearling, weanling.
2. innocent, ingdnue, unsophisticate, simple soul, dove; infant, babe, newborn babe, babe in the woods, child, mere child.
3. dupe, gull, gudgeon, Brit. Dial, cull, Archaic, cully, Inf. chump, SI. sap, SI. schnook, SI. schlemiel, SI. boob; greenhorn, sitting duck, easy or soft mark or target, Inf. sucker, Inf cinch, SI. patsy, SI. pigeon, U.S. SI. fall guy, SI. softie or soft touch, SI. pushover; fool, everybody's fool, fair game, Inf. goat, Brit. SI. mug.
lambaste, v. 1. Informal, beat, thrash, drub, maul, beat black and blue, Dial, larrup, Inf. lather, SI. shellac; whip, horsewhip, lash, flog, flail, whale, Inf hide, Inf tan, Inf tan [s.o.'s] hide; cane, birch, switch; strike, thump, thwack, bang, Inf. clout, Inf. wallop, Inf paste, Inf. biff, SI. whump, SI. cream; club, cudgel, bludgeon, pummel, buffet, batter, hammer, pulverize, Archaic, belabor; punish, chastise, castigate, fustigate.
2. Informal, censure, excoriate, scarify, scathe, flay, Inf. skin alive, Inf. roast; rail at, tongue-lash, SI. jaw; reprove, rebuke, reprimand, scold, chide, admonish, upbraid; All Inf. call down, dress down, jump on, jump all over, jump down [s.o.'s] throat, get on [s.o.'s] back, rake or haul [s.o.] over the coals; All SI. bawl out, chew out, give what-for.
lambent, adj. 1. lightly touching, barely touching, hardly touching, playing lightly over or upon; flitting, dancing, skipping, playing; flickering, licking, fluttering, wavering, quivering.
2. glowing, aglow, incandescent, candescent, luminous, luminant, suffused.
lamblike, adj. 1. meek, mild, gentle, gentle as a lamb, peaceable, pacific, dovelike; passive, submissive, compliant, acquiescent, unresisting; subdued, chastened, tame, broken; resigned, reconciled, long-suffering, longanamous.
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