Slam

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /slam/Rhymes: -æm

Apparently from a Scandinavian source; compare Norwegian slamre, Swedish slemma.

Full definition of slam

Verb

1. (transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.Don't slam the door!
2. (transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or ''into.)Don't slam that trunk down on the pavement!
3. (transitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.
• 2011, January 18, , Wolverhampton 5 - 0 Doncaster, But Wolves went in front when Steven Fletcher headed in Stephen Hunt's cross and it was 2-0 when Geoffrey Mujangi Bia slammed in his first for the club.
4. (transitive, colloquial) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.Don't ever slam me in front of the boss like that again!Union leaders slammed the new proposals.Critics slammed the new film, calling it violent and meaningless.
5. (basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
6. (intransitive, bridge) To make a slam bid.
7. (transitive, card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
8. (transitive) to change providers (e.g. of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without clear (if any) consent.
9. to drink off, to drink quickly
10. to compete in a poetry slam

Synonyms

• (drink quickly) See also

Derived terms

• slam the door on
• slam on the brakes

Noun

1. (countable) A sudden impact or blow.
2. (countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
• Charles DickensThe slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam.
3. (countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
4. (countable, colloquial, US) An insult.
• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 5, “Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.
5. I don't mean this as a slam, but you can be really impatient sometimes.
6. (uncountable) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
7. A poetry slam.
8. (UK, dialect) The refuse of alum works.

Origin unknown.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
2. (cards) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
3. (countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.

Derived terms

• grand slam

Verb

1. (transitive, card games) To defeat by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.

Anagrams

• alms, AMSL, lams, mals