slam
Significado (inglés)
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- To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
- To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
- To strike forcefully with some implement.
- To strike against suddenly and heavily.
- (slang) To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.
- (slang) To defeat or overcome in a match.
- (colloquial) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
- To compete in a poetry slam.
- To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
- To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.
- To drink off, to drink quickly.
- (slang) To inject intravenously; shoot up.
- (slang) To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.
- (informal) To occupy and busy with a high workload.
Sinónimos
slam dance
flap down
slap on
fling down
criticize severely
Frecuencia
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/slæm/
Etimoloxía (inglés)
From Middle English *slammen (not recorded), apparently from a Scandinavian source ultimately from Old Norse slæma, slœma (“to slam, swing a weapon, strike an object out of reach”), related to Old Norse slamra, slambra (“to slam”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål slamre (“to slam”), Swedish slamra (“to pound, beat, make a clatter, rattle”), Norwegian Nynorsk slamra (“to sway, dangle”).
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