Definitions for lams

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lams lam

Spelling: [lam]

IPA: /læm/

Lams is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in lams (alms).

Definitions for lams

noun

1. a hasty escape; flight.
2. the 23rd letter of the Arabic alphabet.
3. Wifredo [wi-frey-doh] /wɪˈfreɪ doʊ/ (Show IPA), or Wilfredo [wil-frey-doh] /wɪlˈfreɪ doʊ/ (Show IPA), 1902–82, Cuban painter in Europe.

Idioms

1. on the lam, escaping, fleeing, or hiding, especially from the police:
2. take it on the lam, to flee or escape in great haste:

verb (used with object)

1. to beat; thrash.

verb (used without object)

1. to beat; strike; thrash (usually followed by out or into).
2. to run away quickly; escape; flee:

Origin of lams

1590-1600; Old Norse lamdi, past tense of lemja to beat; akin to lame¹

Examples for lams

Mrs. McKee drew a long breath and entered the lam stew in a book.

A genus formed for the reception of Isocardia semi-sulcata, lam.

And while Alliegro was on the lam in Central America, Rivera reportedly visited her several times.

Tyrion, now on the lam for patricide by crossbow, is destined for an unknown foreign port like a diminutive Edward Snowden.

But for the globally notorious on the lam, it is shaping up to be an attractive getaway.

Those which depart furthest from this type are the Grypha, lam.

A trader, coming into this camp, represented that lam Khn had let Sl.

The first pioneer to reach the riparian tributary where Kansas City now shimmers was, in fact, on the lam himself.

“[It] was an unexpected but totally interesting project,” lam told WWD.

I've got Jeems Henery to stop gamblin',” he whispered, “an' I didn't have to lam' him.