lam out verb3 •(informal, old-fashioned) Leave, depart; to run away from someone or something.Laboring men begin the Great Walkout - miners, fruit pickers, dock-wallopers, bus boys; by the thousands they quit their jobs, pocket their pills, and lam out for Florida. — 1950 •(informal) Lash out, strike out."[…] If I shout, […] up you come, and lam out with your whip as hard as you can lick. Do you understand?" — 1892 •(informal) Bang out. formslammed out · lamming out · lams out