slam

IPA: sɫˈæm

(countable) A sudden impact or blow.
(countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
(countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
(countable, tennis) One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.
(countable, colloquial, US) An insult.
(uncountable, UK, dialect) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
A poetry slam.
A slambook.
(music, uncountable) A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs.
(uncountable, obsolete) 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.
(countable, card games) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
(countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
(countable, sports) Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
(obsolete) A shambling fellow.
(computer science, uncountable) Initialism of simultaneous localization and mapping.
(military, aviation, weaponry) Acronym of supersonic low altitude missile.
(military, aviation, weaponry) Acronym of stand-off land attack missile.

(transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
(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.)
(transitive, intransitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.
(intransitive) To strike against suddenly and heavily.
(transitive, slang) To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.
(transitive, sports slang) To defeat or overcome in a match.
(transitive, colloquial, originally US) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
To compete in a poetry slam.
(basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
(transitive, telecommunications) To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.
(transitive) To drink off, to drink quickly.
(transitive, intransitive, drugs, slang) To inject intravenously; shoot up.
(transitive, sex, slang, vulgar) To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.
(informal, US) To occupy and busy with a high workload.
(transitive, card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
(intransitive, bridge) To make a slam bid.

Examples of "slam" in Sentences

You should not slam the door.
He slammed the door behind his back.
It is the opposite of the Grand Slam.
The article does not slam the subject.
They heard a cackle and the door slammed shut.
Since you have extra strength and useful honors, slam is certain.
I watched MEET THE PRESS this morning and "slam" is an exaggeration.
I will leave it to others to slam the door in the face of the suffering.
He reacted by angrily leaving the room and slamming the door behind him.
The door at the other end of the hallway does slam shut, alarming the cops.
Governments in the EU would be foolish to slam the door in the Turks' face.
Suddenly the clam slammed the shell shut, gripping the snipe's beak in between.
"There's two voices right now, and the noisy one is what I call the slam-the-borders crowd," Armey said.
And I think what ` s going on is that this is not a very easy or what we call slam-dunk case for the prosecution.
TONY SNOW, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: It seems to that that there is a lot of umbrage taken with the term slam dunk.
The Royal slam is the above including the Goulds subspecies and the World Slam includes the above, the Goulds and the Oscellated of Central America and S. Mexico.
The problem with the baseless slam is that it is the Fault of the GOP and their inability to govern/enforce when it comes to the financial matters of the economy that got us unemployed in the first place.