lamp

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To hit, clout, belt, wallop.

   Another man said, “If someone [a customer]^([sic]) gave me loads of hassle, I'd end up lamping them.” Several of them, in fact, had lost their jobs when they lamped the boss.

2. 2
   verb

   To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.

   I'm in my Flavmobile cold lamping. I took a G upstate cold camping. To the Poconos, we call a hideaways. A bag of franks and a bag of Frito-Lays.

3. 3
   noun

   an artificial source of visible illumination

4. 4
   noun

   a piece of furniture holding one or more electric light bulbs

5. 5
   noun

   A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.

6. 6
   noun

   A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.

7. 7
   noun

   A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

8. 8
   noun

   eye.

Etymology

From Middle English laumpe, lampe, from Old French lampe (“lamp, light”), from Latin lampas (“torch, lamp, light”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch, lamp, beacon, light, meteor”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”). Cognate with Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Welsh llachar (“bright”). Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light-vat”).