Word: slam Part of Speech: verb Etymology: 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”). Pronunciation: /ˈslæm/, [ˈslæm] ~ [ˈslam], /ˈslam/, [ˈslam], [ˈslam] ~ [ˈsläm] 1. To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise. Labels: ergative, transitive Example: Don't slam the door! Example: Britain’s borders: wide open to Covid, slammed shut for people in need [title] 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.) Labels: ergative, transitive Example: Don't slam that trunk down on the pavement! Example: The New South Wales police commissioner has defended the officer who was filmed slamming an Indigenous boy face-first on to a pavement in Sydney, saying the officer “had a bad day”. 3. To strike forcefully with some implement. Labels: ambitransitive Example: But Wolves went in front when Steven Fletcher headed in Stephen Hunt's cross and it was 2-0 when Geoffrey Mujangi Bia slammed in his first for the club. 4. To strike against suddenly and heavily. Labels: intransitive Example: The boat slammed into the bank and we were almost thrown into the river. Example: The 6-ton fishing boat Kuanghua 15638 was slammed by the communist vessel near the Liuchuan reefs off the coast of Chukuang and drifted toward Nanchu after the collision. 5. To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time. Labels: slang, transitive Example: They want me nicked, they want me slammed Fuckin' snitch had me on remand 6. To defeat or overcome in a match. Labels: slang, transitive Example: The Armenian football team has slammed the Turks 6–0. 7. To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully. Labels: colloquial, transitive Example: Don't ever slam me in front of the boss like that again! Example: Union leaders slammed the new proposals. 8. To compete in a poetry slam. 9. To slam-dance. Labels: intransitive 10. To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk. 11. To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent. Labels: transitive 12. To drink off, to drink quickly. Labels: transitive Example: 17 slam some go juice Big project this afternoon? In stressful situations, glucose-rich drinks improve mood and mental performance, say Dutch researchers. 13. To inject intravenously; shoot up. Labels: ambitransitive, slang Example: I mentioned earlier how many people will draw lines in the sand that they'll never cross: some won't try Tina, others will never slam. 14. To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail. Labels: slang, transitive, vulgar Example: Your bird's textin' me 'Tremzy is the man,' You be tryna call her but she's busy gettin' slammed The way she's gettin' doggied you would think she's tryna dance 15. To occupy and busy with a high workload. Labels: US, informal Example: For quotations using this term, see Citations:slam. And Citations:slammed. 16. Of a chaffinch: to produce a certain forceful trilling sound. Labels: intransitive Example: Slamming was formerly disregarded, not being considered a good property, as birds singing their natural note (those caught after moulting in the fields) were distinctly designated rough slamming birds.