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lam
noun- in cheating schemes, a victim UK, 1668
The victims are like “lambs to slaughter” (easily duped). - — Frank Garcia, Marked Cards and Loaded Dice, p. 262, 1962
- a young, innocent-looking male prisoner recently arrived at prison, identified as an easy sexual conquest by the population of sexual predators US, 1922
- — Male Swinger Number 3, p. 47, 1981: “The complete gay dictionary”
▶ on the lam
running away; trying to escape US, 1928- I will have to sub-lease this house to some sucker, and then take it on the lam to Frisco. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to John Clellon Holmes, p. 196, 24 June 1949
- Baltimore is a favorite hide-out for Mafiastas on the lam from other towns[.] — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 259, 1951
- He’s on the lam from a pen back east[.] — Jim Thompson, A Swell-Looking Babe, p. 77, 1954
- She got ten years. She’s still on the lam. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, pp. 376–377, 1979
- [A]n Australian on the lam from a bad life and taken up with a neurotic kibbutznik with three kids. — Sandra Bernhard, Confessions of a Pretty Lady, p. 122, 1988
▶ take it on the lam
to escape, to run away US- One morning I woke up and found that Joel had helped himself to a good part of the cash, and had taken it on the lam. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 167, 1990
- I suppose this is where you, what’s the word, Lovejoy... scarper? Take it on the lam. — Jonathan Gash, The Ten Word Game, p. 139, 2003
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