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slam back

slam back is the alternative form of throw back.

Meaning of throw back

Verb

throw back (third-person singular simple present throws back, present participle throwing back, simple past threw back, past participle thrown back)

  1. (transitive) To hinder the development of something.
  2. (intransitive) To revert to an earlier stage of development.
    • The Century
      A large proportion of the steerage passengers throw back to their Darwinian ancestry.
  3. (transitive) To retort.
    • She jumped to her feet and began stalking away. “Going to cost me fifteen dollars to clean this outfit,” she threw back over her shoulder.2011, Delores Haltom, The Stonecutter: How the Word Became Flesh, page 120
  4. (transitive) To drink quickly, especially alcoholic beverages.
    • We threw back drinks until the next morning.
    Synonyms:
    toss off
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, back.
    • I threw back my head and laughed uproariously.

Forms of slam back

third-person singular presentslams back
present participleslamming back
past participleslammed back
pastslammed back

Questions about slam back

What is slam back the alternative form of?
Slam back is the alternative form of throw back.

Words near slam back in the dictionary

  1. slaloming
  2. slalomist
  3. slalomists
  4. slaloms
  5. slam
  6. slam back
  7. slam book
  8. slam books
  9. slam dance
  10. slam danced
  11. slam dancer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slam back (page history and authors); throw back (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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