"take it on the lam" meaning in All languages combined

See take it on the lam on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: takes it on the lam [present, singular, third-person], taking it on the lam [participle, present], took it on the lam [past], taken it on the lam [participle, past]
Etymology: From on the lam. Etymology templates: {{m|en|on the lam}} on the lam Head templates: {{en-verb|take<,,took,taken> it on the lam}} take it on the lam (third-person singular simple present takes it on the lam, present participle taking it on the lam, simple past took it on the lam, past participle taken it on the lam)
  1. (US) To escape. Tags: US
    Sense id: en-take_it_on_the_lam-en-verb-DQ2CuYsE Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with placeholder "it"

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for take it on the lam meaning in All languages combined (1.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "on the lam"
      },
      "expansion": "on the lam",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From on the lam.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> it on the lam"
      },
      "expansion": "take it on the lam (third-person singular simple present takes it on the lam, present participle taking it on the lam, simple past took it on the lam, past participle taken it on the lam)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To escape."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_it_on_the_lam-en-verb-DQ2CuYsE",
      "links": [
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) To escape."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take it on the lam"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "on the lam"
      },
      "expansion": "on the lam",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From on the lam.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken it on the lam",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> it on the lam"
      },
      "expansion": "take it on the lam (third-person singular simple present takes it on the lam, present participle taking it on the lam, simple past took it on the lam, past participle taken it on the lam)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To escape."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "escape",
          "escape"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US) To escape."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take it on the lam"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-12 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (ae36afe and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.