Usually means: Flee quickly to avoid capture.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word LAM:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. lam: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Lam, lam: Merriam-Webster
  3. Lam, lam, lam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Lam, lam, lam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Lam, lam: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lam: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lam, Lam, Lam, lam, lam, lam: Wordnik
  8. lam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. LAM, Lam, lam: Wiktionary
  10. lam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lam: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. LAM, lam: Dictionary.com
  13. lam, lam (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. LAM, LaM, Lam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Lam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lam: Rhymezone
  18. Lam, lam (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lam: FreeDictionary.org
  20. lam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Lam, lam: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. lam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  23. lam: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Crop Abbreviations (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lam: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LAM: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. LAM: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. LAM: Acronym Finder
  2. lam: A Word A Day
  3. LAM: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. lam: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lam, lam, lam, lam, lam: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lam: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rapid Prototyping Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See laming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (LAM)

verb:  (transitive, informal) To beat or thrash.
verb:  (intransitive, dated, slang) To flee or run away.
noun:  (slang) A flight or escape.
noun:  The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).
noun:  A surname from Cantonese.
noun:  (military, weaponry) Abbreviation of light antiarmor/antiarmour missile.
noun:  (military, weaponry) Abbreviation of land attack missile.
noun:  (military, weaponry) Abbreviation of loitering attack missile.
noun:  Acronym of lactational amenorrhea method, a method of birth control through breastfeeding.

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