slam

Meaning

1. To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
2. To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
3. To strike forcefully with some implement.
4. To strike against suddenly and heavily.
5. (slang) To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.
6. (slang) To defeat or overcome in a match.
7. (colloquial) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
8. To compete in a poetry slam.
9. To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
10. To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.
11. To drink off, to drink quickly.
12. (slang) To inject intravenously; shoot up.
13. (slang) To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.
14. (informal) To occupy and busy with a high workload.

bang

slam dance

flap down

slap on

fling down

criticize severely

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/slæm/

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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