Definitions for SLAM

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SLAM slam

Spelling: [slam]

IPA: /slæm/

Slam is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 43 anagrams from letters in SLAM (alms).

Definitions for SLAM

noun

1. a violent and noisy closing, dashing, or impact.
2. the noise so made.
3. Usually, the slam. Slang. slammer (def 2).
4. Informal. a harsh criticism; verbal attack:
5. Informal. Also called poetry slam. a competitive, usually boisterous poetry reading. a usually competitive performance involving multiple performers with short acts:
6. the winning or bidding of all the tricks or all the tricks but one in a deal. Compare grand slam (def 1), little slam.
7. an old type of card game associated with ruff.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to shut with force and noise:
2. to dash, strike, knock, thrust, throw, slap down, etc., with violent and noisy impact:
3. Informal. to criticize harshly; attack verbally:

Origin of SLAM

1650-60; perhaps Scandinavian; compare Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish slamra to slam

Examples for SLAM

A moment later the window above them was closed with a slam.

And the information that the FBI has presented so far strikes many experts as hardly a slam dunk against Pyongyang.

For Best Actor in a Musical, Neil Patrick Harris seems like a slam dunk for Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

Azuba entered the store in the way in which she did most things, with a flurry and a slam.

That may be, but experts say that “similarities” to other attacks is hardly a slam dunk.

The outside door closed with a slam; "Brother Obed" had fled.

The only thing that disappointed me about that whole thing was that Franco removed the slam.

Keziah started, as if the slam of the door had been an electric shock.

The door between the sitting-room and dining-room closed with a slam.

Apparently, 2016 is not shaping up as a Democratic slam dunk.