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lams into

lams into is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lam into.

Meaning of lam into

Verb

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

  1. (dated, informal) To run into (someone); to have a chance encounter with (someone).
  2. (dated, informal) To attack physically.
    • Then I drove the whole lot forth, mother and daughter, lamming into them with fist and foot.1887, Benvenuto Cellini, chapter 29, in John Addington Symonds, transl., Autobiography
  3. (informal) To attack verbally.
    • But certainly those eggs we got were as fresh as if they had been new laid. Fresh! Carrying them down to the boat one of my […] chaps dropped one on a rock and it smashed. How I lammed into the beggar!1894 December 27, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Æpyornis Island”, in The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents, London: Methuen & Co. […], published 1895, →OCLC, page 144

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Lams into is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lam into.

Words near lams into in the dictionary

  1. lampyrids
  2. lampyrine
  3. lampyrines
  4. lamrim
  5. lams
  6. lams into
  7. lams off
  8. lams out
  9. lamsiekte
  10. Lamson
  11. Lamsons

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