- lamp⇄expr. smell of the lamp, to suggest long hours of hard work late at night; be stuffy or pedantic.
Ex. Hardly any poet smells of the lamp less disagreeably than Spenser (George E. B. Saintsbury). - lamp⇄lamp, noun, verb.
- lamp⇄noun 1. a device that gives artificial light. Oil lamps hold oil and a wick by which the oil is burned. A gas or electric light, especially when covered with a glass globe or other shade, is called a lamp. Sometimes anything that gives light, such as a t
- lamp⇄v.t. (Slang.) to eye; look at.
Ex. From the corner of his eye, he lamped the woman (J. T. Farrell).