lams
Bolts from trouble
Lams is the plural of lam, a verb meaning to strike hard or beat, and also a noun referring to hasty flight from the law.
The verb sense is old-fashioned: He lammed the ball over the fence.
The noun appears almost exclusively in the phrase on the lam, meaning fleeing or hiding to avoid capture by authorities.
Someone who lams it or takes it on the lam makes a quick escape, usually to evade arrest.
thrashing
Decisive, lopsided defeat
flogging · clobbering · pounding · battering · striking · hitting · slugging · smacking · thumping · bashing
fleeing
Rapid escape from danger
- boltingDeparting at speed
- runningSwift foot travel
- abscondingDeparting secretly to evade
flight · getaway · jailbreak · breakout · evasion · fugitive · hideout · manhunt · pursuit · vanishing
lamssurrenders
Ceases resistance formally
capitulates · gives up · yields · submits · gives in
- lamb chopsSmall cuts from young sheep
- on the lamEscaping from police
- leg of lambRoasted ovine haunch
- lamb to the slaughterOne unknowingly approaching harm
- sacrificial lambOne offered for others' benefit
- roast lambBaked young sheep meat
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