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Slam   /slæm/   Listen
noun
Slam  n.  
1.
The act of one who, or that which, slams.
2.
The shock and noise produced in slamming. "The slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam."
3.
(Card Playing) Winning all the tricks of a deal (called, in bridge, grand slam, the winning of all but one of the thirteen tricks being called a little slam or small slam).
4.
The refuse of alum works. (Prov. Eng.)


verb
Slam  v. t.  (past & past part. slammed; pres. part. slamming)  
1.
To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.
2.
To put in or on some place with force and loud noise; usually with down; as, to slam a trunk down on the pavement.
3.
To strike with some implement with force; hence, to beat or cuff. (Prov. Eng.)
4.
To strike down; to slaughter. (Prov. Eng.)
5.
To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
To slam to, to shut or close with a slam. "He slammed to the door."


Slam  v. i.  To come or swing against something, or to shut, with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise; as, a door or shutter slams.





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"Slam" Quotes from Famous Books



... was what Peter T. called "the limit, and a chip or two over." The other would-be gunners and fishermen were satisfied to slam shot after sandpeeps, or hook a stray sculpin or a hake. But t'wa'n't so with brother James Todd and sister Clarissa. "Ducks" it was in the advertising, and nothing BUT ducks they wanted. Clarissa, she commenced to hint middling ...
— Cape Cod Stories - The Old Home House • Joseph C. Lincoln
... rudeness once too often, as you shall hear. For the Fairy Blackstick coming to call upon the Prince and Princess, who were actually sitting at the open drawing-room window, Gruffanuff not only denied them, but made the most ODIOUS VULGAR SIGN as he was going to slam the door in the Fairy's face! 'Git away, hold Blackstick!' said he. 'I tell you, Master and Missis ain't at home to you;' and he was, as we have said, GOING to slam ...
— The Rose and the Ring • William Makepeace Thackeray
... want you. Come, anybody.' Two or three times she spoke loudly, clearly, as if calling to some one through a thick wall. This interested me exceedingly. Generally psychics are very humble and patient with their 'guides.' A few moments later the slates began to slam about so violently beneath the table that her arm was bruised, and she protested sharply: 'Don't do that. You will break the slates and the table both!' Thereupon the 'forces' quieted down till only a peculiar quiver remained in them. ...
— The Shadow World • Hamlin Garland
... a noise you make! Don't you know better than to slam the doer in that way when you come in? If you can't learn to make less noise in going in and out, I shall not let you go in and out ...
— Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young • Jacob Abbott
... slam, and deprived of life-day, who was Hengest's son, out of Saxland come, Colgrim was the noblest man that came out of Saxland, after Hengest, and Hors, his brother, and Octa, and Ossa, and their companion Ebissa. At that day ...
— Brut • Layamon


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