slam v.1
1. in verbal senses.
(a) to talk, to boast.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Triumph of Wit (5th edn) 194: The cully slams Flash rumly [The Fellow Cants very well]. | |
| Golden Cabinet of Secrets [as cit. 1707]. | |
| Scoundrel’s Dict. [as cit. 1707]. | |
| ‘Villon’s Good-Night’ in Farmer Musa Pedestris (1896) 174: You bleeding bonnets, pugs, and subs, / You swatchel-coves that pitch and slam. |
(b) (US) to insult, to criticize harshly.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Maud (1939) 291: When I and Mr Hough arrived late Dr Benson and Mr Parsons slammed right and left at the tardiness. | |
| ‘Negro English’ in Anglia VII 262: To slam loose on or at = to inveigh against, censure. | |
| Signor Lippo 47: If the beds ain’t all made, the rooms swept [...] they open their mizzards and slam. | |
| ‘Word-List From East Alabama’ in DN III:v 371: slam, v. To make an uncomplimentary remark about. ‘He slammed me to my back, but he daresen’t do it to my face.’. | |
| Somewhere in Red Gap 57: Couldn’t even agree on the same kind of cocktail. Both slamming the waiter. | |
| Young People’s Pride 201: I’m not slamming Peter’s sympathetic soul. | |
| Right Ho, Jeeves 127: ‘Roast, sir?’ ‘Knock. Slam. Tick off. Abuse. Denounce. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Love me Sailor 42: I wanted to say a lot more to slam Ern. | |
| Thief’s Primer 60: ‘Trick’ is not flattery; you’re not flattering anybody when you’re using that word. although you’re not slamming them either. | |
| Blood Brothers 168: If you don’t get slammed, just go with the flow. | |
| Auf Wiedersehen Pet Two 258: It was headlined: ‘HOLIDAY BRITS SLAM ROBBERY SMEAR’. | |
| Guardian 30 July 1: MPs and peers slam Straw over secrecy. | |
| Indep. Rev. 3 May 11: I think it could be slammed for being too honest. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Gutted 25: Unctuous, lardass business men from Nowhere, Arkansas [...] Why I’m slamming Americans I don’t know. | |
![[SA]](/static/img/flags/sa.png "South Africa") | IOL News (Western Cape) 25 Oct. 🌐 A Canadian broadcast watchdog has slammed a Toronto shock jock for making crude comments. | |
| Cape Argus IOL 27 Mar. 🌐 Rights groups and farm workers have slammed the government. | |
| Widespread Panic 203: I know. let’s slam Mr Blacklist. He always gives up the goods. |
2. (orig. US) to beat up, to hurt badly, to hit; also fig. use.
| Tales of the Ex-Tanks 107: Williams slammed him, and hit a friend without knowing it. | |
| ‘Little Nemo in Slumber land’ [comic strip] Who are you slamming around, eh? You’ve got a noive! | |
| God’s Man 131: ‘Listen, broad,’ I’d say, then, ‘you got your roasting clothes on to-day and you better take ’em off quick or I’ll slam you one in the kisser.’. | |
| Classics in Sl. 43: All the guys [...] was kickin’, slammin’, cloutin’, whippin’, beatin’, and hammerin’ poor old Uncle Tom all over the place. | |
| (con. 1920s) Young Manhood in Studs Lonigan (1936) 244: Jumping up ready to go on, no matter how hard he was slammed. | |
| Poor Man’s Orange 5: You couldn’t even sneak up behind it and slam it with a bottle in a sock. | |
| Catcher in the Rye (1958) 48: If you don’t shut up, I’m gonna slam ya one. | |
| World’s Toughest Prison 818: slam – To strike; to hit. | |
| Faggots 276: Fred Lemish was right to slam you in the face. | |
| (con. 1960) My Secret Hist. (1990) 98: I can tell when they want me to hit them. I just fucken slam them and they love it. | |
| Awaydays 44: The Juniors still pull them back down into the ground and slam them. | |
| Outlaws (ms.) 167: Say it again and I will slam you. | |
| Last Burn in Hell 20: You’ve been slammed when a guard harshly takes you to the ground and restrains you. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 120: I threw [...] uppercuts [...] I went downstairs and slammed his ribs. Sheared bones poked out. |
3. (US) to hurry off [? the slamming of a door behind one or the slamming of one’s feet on the ground].
| ‘Negro English’ in Anglia VII 273: To slam out de State = to leave the State. | |
| Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 226/1: Slam (American,– passing to England). To skurry or chevy, slamming from the vigour displayed in slamming a door. | |
| Truth (Perth) 18 Feb. 8/6: There do be some rummy people / Slammin round about just now. | |
| ‘Big Blonde’ in Penguin Dorothy Parker (1982) 190: He would slam out of the flat and come back late and drunk. | |
 | Pinte Co. News (Junction, UT) 25 May 7/5: He got up and slammed out of the house. | |
| Parole Chief 113: He slammed his way out of the room. | |
| ‘The Fishing-Boat Picture’ Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1960) 72: She slammed out of the house. | |
| Skeletons 208: The two slammed out. | |
| Class Act [ebook] A few minutes later [he] slammed out of the house. |
4. (US prison) to oppose the authorities, to go on strike.
| ‘Prison Dict.’ in AS VIII:3 (1933) 31/2: SLAM. 1. To buck. 2. To strike or join in a strike. |
5. (US black/campus/W.I./UK black teen) of a man, to have sexual intercourse with someone; also as n.
| implied in slam it around | |
| Entry E (1961) 24: Boy, how I’d like to slam that once or twice! | |
| Campus Sl. Spring 7: slam – (2) sexual intercourse. | |
| Sl. U. | |
| ‘Sugar 3’ Mr Web Rev. Aug. 🌐 They move into doggy & Marcus slams her like there isn’t a tomorrow. | |
| Eddie’s World 42: That’s not what the goverment had in mind when they made you this deal, Jimmy, slamming the white prize. | |
| Dead Man’s Trousers [15]: [I]f they’re worth fucking more than once, keep them waiting for it. Then slam the very fucking soul out of them. |
6. (US campus) to reject someone.
| Campus Sl. Fall 7: slam – reject someone of the opposite sex. |
7. (US campus) to do well.
| Campus Sl. Nov. 7: slam [...] Do well: I slammed on that test. | |
| Hard Stuff 45: The Motown artists slammed. Lesley Gore was intense. |
8. (orig. US campus) to drink fast, usu. beer; thus slam a forty, to drink a 40-ounce (2-litre) bottle of beer.
| Campus Sl. Nov. | |
| Firing Offense 166: I slammed two cans of beer. | |
| Six Out Seven (1994) 150: He tilted the bottle way back and gulped [...] Hobbes’s laugh came from beside him. ‘That the way to slam a forty, man.’. | |
| Chicken (2003) 181: I slam a small Jack. | |
| Frank Sinatra in a Blender [ebook] He slammed the rest of his Remy and dropped the empty glass on the table. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 73: She’s slamming Smirnoff 100 from 10:00 a.m. on. |
9. to shut down, to close.
| Homeboy 29: Johnny Formosa and the tongs have slammed all the mah-jong parlors. |
10. in basketball, to to slam the ball downward through the hoop: to ‘dunk’.
| Mouse Rap 7: He can slam, he can jam, he can do the Whimmy Wham! |
11. in drug uses.
(a) to sell drugs.
| Cocaine True 115: There were dozens of dealers out there ‘slamming’ heroin, cocaine, crack, marijuana, and a wide assortment of pills. |
(b) to use heroin regularly.
| Mr Blue 236: I didn’t think you slammed. |
(c) to inject a narcotic, usu. heroin.
| Homeboy 220: Lemme slam it. These Codeines dont touch my kind of sick. | |
| (con. 1964-65) Sex and Thugs and Rock ’n’ Roll 141: He’s probably slammed himself too hard [...] and is lying out cold somewhere with my eight ball in his pocket. | |
| Right As Rain 239: This white boy, what’s he doin’ in here? Is he slammin’ it upstairs? | |
| ‘The Target’ Wire ep. 1 [TV script] Yo’ gonna fall out slammin’ shit like that one of these days . |
12. see slam dance v.
In compounds
see separate entries.
see separate entries.
(US campus) a sexual partner.
| Campus Sl. Nov. | |
| Sl. and Sociability 71: One hits on members of the opposite sex, potential slampieces, and winds up throwing down, knocking boots, or banging them. |
In phrases
(US) to have sexual intercourse.
| Brotherhood of Corruption 259: ‘Why don’t you stick around and hang out?’ ‘I’d love to, bro’, but duty calls and by that time I’ll be slamming hips’. |
(US) to interrupt, to interfere.
| Nebraska State Jrnl (Lincoln, NE) 14 June 9/4: Now I’m not a slammer-in but [...] I just leaned over to him and took a chance. |
to have sexual intercourse.
| Never Come Morning (1988) 219: Ain’t you gonna play Hide the Weenie, Hon? C’mon, Slim, let’s slam it around. | |
| Dead Man’s Trousers 60: ‘So muggins here kept dutifully slamming it up her’. |
1. to die.
| Und. Speaks. | |
| ‘Red Wind’ in Red Wind (1946) 28: You’re slammin’ off, pal. I guess you know that. | |
| Criminal Sl. (rev. edn). |
2. to kill.
| (con. 1940s) Dark Sea Running 184: He jus want to slam off a few Japs. |
3. (UK juv.) to play truant.
| OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 slam off n. be absent from school without permission. |
of a woman, to masturbate.
| GeorgeCarlin.com 🌐 Masturbation (Female): slam the clam. |
(US tramp) to beg from private houses.
| ‘And ’Frisco Kid Came Back’ in High School Aegis X 4 Nov. 2–4: De nex’ house I slammed de gate at, dere wuz a cross-eyed man. | |
| Road 1: I could ‘throw my feet’ with the next one when it came to ‘slamming the gate’ for a ‘poke-out’. | |
| in ‘Jargon of the Und.’ in DN V. | |
| Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 172: Slamming the Gate. – Begging at private houses. |
1. of a man, to masturbate.
| ‘My Life as a Creep’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 124: I synced her face to Wallace’s prose and slammed the ham in the stacks. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Number One Adult Sexual Health Terms Advisor 🌐 Masturbation Slang Male Terms: [...] slammin’ the salmon / slam the ham/salami/spam. | |
| (con. 1962) Enchanters 90: [H]e slams the ham while he listens to the tapes of their [analytic] sessions. |
2. (US) to have sexual intercourse.
| Modern English 72: copulation (n): [...] Slamming the ham. |
of a man, to masturbate.
| GeorgeCarlin.com 🌐 Masturbation (Male): slam the hammer. |
(US Und.) to close a row of cell doors using a remote mechanism that closes every door simultaneously.
| Prison Sl. 7: Rollin’ the Bars [...] In many prisons, the cell doors on each row of cells are opened and closed automatically at specific times. The cell doors are made of steel bars and operate on steel rollers that are connected so they open or close simultaneously [...] (Archaic: slam the slats). |
In exclamations
a euph. for damn me!
| The Minor 36: Slam me, but the man’s mad! | |
| Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 475: But slam me if its aught but spite. | |
| Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 315: [as cit. 1772]. |