What is a synonym for "lam"?

Common synonyms include: getaway, thrash, absquatulate, batter, beat, beat it.

Lam

//læm// name, noun, verb, slang

name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level

Noun

1
A flight or escape. slang
"on the lam"
2
The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).
3
Abbreviation of light antiarmor/antiarmour missile. abbreviation, alt-of
4
a rapid escape (as by criminals) wordnet
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Abbreviation of land attack missile. abbreviation, alt-of

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Abbreviation of loitering attack missile. abbreviation, alt-of
7
Acronym of lactational amenorrhea method, a method of birth control through breastfeeding. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of

Verb

1
To beat or thrash. informal, transitive
"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 Catherine Sanders, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002, p. 102, An' fo' I knowed it, he done picked up that bone an' lammed me ovah de head wid it."
2
give a thrashing to; beat hard wordnet
3
To flee or run away. dated, intransitive, slang
"[Gangster running away:] Batman and Robin! Let's lam!"
4
flee; take to one's heels; cut and run wordnet