lam
/læm/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.44 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).
noun
noun
noun
noun
Acronym of lactational amenorrhea method, a method of birth control through breastfeeding.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "They lammed each other on the head with great, clumsy stone hammers; but their skulls were so hard that the hammers bounced off again […]"
- "[Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!"
- "[…]and she was so mad and so down deep vindictive that she reported to the police some false trumped-up hysterical crazy charge, and Dean had to lam from Hoboken."
- "on the lam"
Etymology
From Middle English lamen, lemen, from Old English lemian and Old Norse lemja; both from Proto-Germanic *lamjaną.