How to pronounce “slam”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (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.)
• (ambitransitive) 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.
• (ambitransitive, 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.
• [Noun]
• (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.

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