Usually means: Forcefully shut with loud noise.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. slam: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. slam, the slam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. slam, slam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. slam: Collins English Dictionary
  5. slam: Vocabulary.com
  6. Slam, slam: Wordnik
  7. slam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. SLAM, slam: Wiktionary
  9. slam: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. slam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. slam: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. slam, the slam: Dictionary.com
  13. slam (1), slam (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. slam: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. S.L.A.M, SLAM (clothing), SLAM (magazine), SLAM, Slam (Big Dipper album), Slam (DJs), Slam (Humanoid song), Slam (Joe Lynn Turner album), Slam (Onyx song), Slam (Pendulum song), Slam (band), Slam (disambiguation), Slam (film), Slam (magazine), Slam (novel), Slam (soundtrack), Slam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Slam: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. slam: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. slam: Rhymezone
  19. slam: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. slam: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SLAM: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. slam: Free Dictionary
  23. slam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. slam: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Beginners' Bridge Glossay (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. slam: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SLAM: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. SLAM: Dictionary of Programming Languages
  3. slam: Encyclopedia
  4. Windows API Guide (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. SLAM: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. slam: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SLAM: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. slam, slam, slam, slam: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Slam: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. S.L.A.M, s.l.a.m, the slam: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Slam: Fifthchair Bridge
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  4. Slam: Sports Definitions

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  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
verb:  (transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.
verb:  (intransitive) To strike against suddenly and heavily.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.
verb:  (transitive, sports slang) To defeat or overcome in a match.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial, originally US) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
verb:  To compete in a poetry slam.
verb:  (basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
verb:  (transitive, telecommunications) To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.
verb:  (transitive) To drink off, to drink quickly.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, drugs, slang) To inject intravenously; shoot up.
verb:  (transitive, sex, slang, vulgar) To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.
verb:  (informal, US) To occupy and busy with a high workload.
noun:  (countable) A sudden impact or blow.
noun:  (countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
noun:  (countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
noun:  (countable, tennis) One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.
noun:  (countable, colloquial, US) An insult.
noun:  (uncountable, UK, dialect) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
noun:  A poetry slam.
noun:  A slambook.
noun:  (music, uncountable) A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs.
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
noun:  A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.
noun:  (countable, card games) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
noun:  (countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
noun:  (countable, sports) Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
verb:  (transitive, card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
verb:  (intransitive, bridge) To make a slam bid.
noun:  (obsolete) A shambling fellow.
noun:  (computer science, uncountable) Initialism of simultaneous localization and mapping.
noun:  (military, aviation, weaponry) Acronym of supersonic low altitude missile.
noun:  (military, aviation, weaponry) Acronym of stand-off land attack missile.

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