Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The winning of all the tricks or all but one during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games.
- noun A contract to make a slam.
- intransitive verb To shut with force and loud noise.
- intransitive verb To put, throw, or otherwise forcefully move so as to produce a loud noise.
- intransitive verb To hit or strike with great force.
- intransitive verb Slang To criticize harshly; censure forcefully.
- intransitive verb Slang To drink quickly (a beverage, especially an alcoholic one). Often used with back or down.
- intransitive verb To close or swing into place with force so as to produce a loud noise.
- intransitive verb To hit something with force; crash.
- noun A forceful impact that makes a loud noise.
- noun A noise so produced.
- noun An act of shutting forcefully and loudly.
- noun Slang A harsh or devastating criticism.
- noun A poetry slam.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An ill-shaped, shambling fellow.
- noun A violent and noisy collision or bang, as when a door is suddenly shut by the wind, or by a vehement push: as, the shutters were closed with a slam.
- noun The winning of all the tricks in a hand at whist, or in a game of euchre.
- noun The refuse of alumworks.
- To close with force and noise; shut with violence; bang.
- To push violently or rudely; beat; cuff.
- To throw violently and with a loud, sudden noise: as, to
slam a book down upon the table. - In card-playing, to beat by winning all the tricks in a hand or game.
- To move or close violently and with noise; strike violently and noisily against something.
- noun An old game at cards.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of one who, or that which, slams.
- noun The shock and noise produced in slamming.
- noun (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).
- noun Prov. Eng. The refuse of alum works.
- transitive verb To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang.
- transitive verb To put in or on some place with force and loud noise; -- usually with
down . - transitive verb Prov. Eng. To strike with some implement with force; hence, to beat or cuff.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. To strike down; to slaughter.
- transitive verb To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
- transitive verb to shut or close with a slam.
- intransitive verb To come or swing against something, or to shut, with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
- noun card games Losing or winning all the
tricks in a game. - noun countable, bridge A bid of six (small slam) or seven (
grand slam ) in a suit or no trump. - verb transitive, card games To defeat by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
- verb transitive, ergative To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
- verb 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.)
- verb transitive To strike forcefully with some implement.
- verb transitive, colloquial To speak badly of.
- verb basketball To dunk forcefully, to
slam dunk . - verb intransitive, bridge To make a slam bid.
- verb transitive to change providers (e.g. of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without clear (if any) consent.
- verb to
drink off , to drink quickly - noun countable A sudden
impact orblow . - noun countable The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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TONY SNOW, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: It seems to that that there is a lot of umbrage taken with the term slam dunk.
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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.
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"There's two voices right now, and the noisy one is what I call the slam-the-borders crowd," Armey said.
Bush announces his Suicide of the GOP initiative Steve Sailer 2005
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"There's two voices right now, and the noisy one is what I call the slam-the-borders crowd," Armey said.
Archive 2005-07-24 Steve Sailer 2005
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I watched MEET THE PRESS this morning and "slam" is an exaggeration.
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I watched MEET THE PRESS this morning and "slam" is an exaggeration.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Since you have extra strength and useful honors, slam is certain.
Bridge Frank Stewart 2010
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