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lamp verb- to look US, 1907
- I gave him the double-o after I lamped the engraved card he handed me. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 261, 1946
- When Anslinger lamped the boys, he went to the lobby and had Lucky called out. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 184, 1951
- “Crazy, man, crazy,” spieled his pal, one eye lamping a real gone gal. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 18, 1959
- [W]e were dying to have a butcher’s [look] and lamp all the new bird [women]. — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 34, 1962
- He nipped me by my coatsleeve and lamped me with a wicked eye. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 85, 1965
- [W]hen Joe extended his condolences for Archie, the Chinese gangster just lamped him with a freezedried smile. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 264, 1990
- to hit, to beat UK, 1954
- Whoever said you weren’t sexy, Elspeth? Tell me, I’ll lamp him one. — Christopher Brookmyre, Boiling a Frog, p. 24, 2000
- I will lamp any idiot who says we’re not rock’n’roll. — X-Ray, April 2003
- to pass time idly, without purpose US, 1988
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 6, Spring 1991
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