Meaning of lam into | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To run into (someone); to have a chance encounter with (someone).
   dated, informal
2. To attack physically.
   dated, informal
3. To attack verbally.
   informal

Examples

“Then I drove the whole lot forth, mother and daughter, lamming into them with fist and foot.”

“The girl stared at him for a moment thunderstruck; then she lammed into the old horse with a stick she carried in place of a whip.”

“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!”

“It's all right. An Englishwoman there lammed into me last night, first about the atom bomb and then saying that I must be a fanatic.”

“1968, Hansard, 16 July, 1968, "Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations Report," https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/ I have to admit that it was for me a substantial eye-opener when, as a member of the T.G.W.U., I attended its summer school and heard one of the national officials lamming into the men in a way which I would not have believed possible if I had not heard it.”

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