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lamming

lamming is the present participle and gerund of lam.

Meaning of lam

Verb

lam (third-person singular simple present lams, present participle lamming, simple past and past participle lammed)

  1. (informal, transitive) To beat or thrash.
    • An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it.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...
  2. (dated, intransitive, slang) To flee or run away.
    • [Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!1947, Bill Finger, World's Finest Comics #30, "The Penny Plunderers!", p. 4

See all 5 meanings of lam

Noun

lamming (plural lammings)

  1. A beating.
    • This blood, I am informed, saved him many lammings from the head of the house, who, though Keeper of the Fives, fainted at first sight of it […]1923, J. M. Barrie, Captain Hook at Eton

Proper noun capitalized: Lamming

Lamming (plural Lammings)

  1. A surname.

Forms of lamming

Noun
plurallammings
Proper noun
pluralLammings

Phrases with lamming

Questions about lamming

What does lamming mean?
Lamming means a beating.
What is lamming the present participle and gerund of?
Lamming is the present participle and gerund of lam.
What part of speech is lamming?
Lamming can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of lamming?
The plural of lamming is lammings.

Words near lamming in the dictionary

  1. Lammerts
  2. lammie
  3. lammies
  4. lammiger
  5. lammigers
  6. lamming
  7. lamming into
  8. lamming off
  9. lamming out
  10. lammings
  11. lammy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lamming (page history and authors); Lamming (page history and authors); lam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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