lam

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A flight or escape. slang
    — on the lam
  2. The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).
动词 v.
  1. To beat or thrash. informal,transitive
    — 1930, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Mule Bone, Act II, Scene 2, in The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 5: The Plays to 1942: Mulatto to The Sun Do Move, edited by Leslie Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102, An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.
  2. To flee or run away. dated,intransitive,slang
    — [Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!

词形变化

lams present,singular,third-person lamming participle,present lammed participle,past lammed past lamm alternative lams plural lamm alternative lams plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną.
词源 2
From Arabic لَام (lām), the name of the letter ل (l).
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