# Slam

Slam, SLAM or SLAMS may refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Fictional elements

* S.L.A.M. (Strategic Long-Range Artillery Machine), a fictional weapon in the G.I. Joe universe
* SLAMS (Space-Land-Air Missile Shield), a fictional anti-ballistic missile system featured in Tom Clancy's EndWar and briefly mentioned in other Tom Clancy's video games

### Films

* Slam (1998 film), an American film starring Saul Williams and Beau Sia
* Slam (2016 film), an Italian film based on the novel of the same name by Nick Hornby
* Slam (2018 film), an Australian feature directed by Partho Sen-Gupta

### Literature

* Slam (novel), a novel by Nick Hornby
* Slam!, a novel by Walter Dean Myers about a high school basketball star from Harlem
* Slam, a novel by Lewis Shiner

### Music
#### Albums

* Slam (Big Dipper album), 1990
* Slam (Joe Lynn Turner album), 2001
* Slam (soundtrack), from the 1998 film
* Slam (Dan Reed Network album) [de], a 1989 album by Dan Reed Network
* Slam, a 1978 album by Suburban Studs

#### Songs

* "Slam" (Humanoid song), 1989
* "Slam" (Onyx song), 1993
* "Slam" (Pendulum song), 2005
* "Slam", a song by Bow Wow
* "Slam", a song by Seaway from Colour Blind
* "Slam", a 2002 song by A-Teens from Pop 'til You Drop!
* "Slam", a 2009 song by Anna Arbeu from Just a Pretty Face?

#### Other uses in music

* Slam (DJs), an electronic music production and DJ duo from Glasgow
* Save Live Australian Music (or SLAM), a 2010 rally in Melbourne, Australia
* Slam death metal (often referred to as simply "slam"), a style of death metal

### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* Slam (cards), a contract in card games in which the player undertakes to win all tricks
* Slam (magazine), a basketball publication
* SLAM! (radio station), a Dutch radio station based in Naarden
* Poetry slam, a competition in which poets of all ages perform spoken word poetry
* Slam! Sports, a section of Canadian Online Explorer (i.e., Canoe.com)
* Slamdancing, a style of dance
* SLAM!, a short-lived block on Nickelodeon

## Science and technology
### Computing

* Simultaneous localization and mapping (or SLAM), a navigation technique used by robots and autonomous vehicles
* SLAM project, a Microsoft research project
* Simulation Language for Analogue Modelling (or SLAM), a simulation language, versions based on Fortran and GASP

### Weapons

* Selectable Lightweight Attack Munition (or SLAM), a small United States multi-purpose landmine
* Shoulder-Launched Antiaircraft Missile (or SLAM), a competing design proposal rejected in favor of the FIM-43 Redeye
* Standoff Land Attack Missile (or SLAM), an over-the-horizon, all-weather cruise missile developed in the 1990s
* Submarine Launched Airflight Missile (or SLAM), an experimental variant of the British Blowpipe
* Supersonic Low Altitude Missile (or SLAM), a cancelled U.S. Air Force nuclear-powered cruise missile project of the 1950, nicknamed the flying crowbar

### Other uses

* Signaling lymphocytic activation molecule (or SLAM), a family of genes

## Sports

* Body slam, any move in which a wrestler picks up and throws an opponent down to the ground limp back-first
* Chennai Slam, an Indian basketball team
* Grand slam (baseball), often shortened into "slam"

## Other uses

* SLAM (clothing), a manufacturer of clothing based in Italy
* Saint Louis Art Museum (or SLAM), in St. Louis, Missouri
* Service Level Agreement Monitoring (or SLAM), often used in the National Health Service to describe data received by commissioners from providers
* South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (or SLAM), a group of hospitals
* Abbreviation or nickname for S.L.A. Marshall, brigadier general and military journalist and historian