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slam

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1. slam - Noun

2. slam - Verb

Meaning

To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.

To put in or on some place with force and loud noise; -- usually with down; as, to slam a trunk down on the pavement.

To strike with some implement with force; hence, to beat or cuff.

To strike down; to slaughter.

To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.

To come or swing against something, or to shut, with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise; as, a door or shutter slams.

The act of one who, or that which, slams.

The shock and noise produced in slamming.

Winning all the tricks of a deal.

The refuse of alum works.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile. Condoleezza Rice

Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway. Dennis Rodman

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future. Charlie Sheen

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut. Frank Lautenberg

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