slam
Meaning of slam
noun
- A sudden impact or blow.
- The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
- A slam dunk.
- An insult.
I don't mean this as a slam, but you can be really impatient sometimes.
- The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
- A poetry slam.
- A slambook.
- The refuse of alum works.
- A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs
- To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
Don't slam the door!
- 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!
- To strike forcefully with some implement.
- To strike against suddenly and heavily.
The boat slammed into the bank and we were almost thrown into the river.
- To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
Critics slammed the new film, calling it violent and meaningless.
- To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
- To make a slam bid.
- To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
- To change providers (e.g. of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without clear (if any) consent.
- To drink off, to drink quickly.
- To compete in a poetry slam.
- To inject intravenously; shoot up.
- A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
- A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.
- Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
- A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
- Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
verb
To defeat by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
noun
A shambling fellow.
Information about slam
- The plural form of slam is: slams.
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Hyphenation of slam
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- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- slam is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
slam synonyms
Meaning sweep:
Meaning shot:
shot, shaft, dig, barb, jibe, gibe
Meaning bang:
Meaning slam dance:
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Words that rhyme with slam
Aslam, Haslam, hojatoleslam, Islam, hojatolislam, islam, panislam, kerslam
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