slams

Noun

slam (countable and uncountable, plural slams)

1. (countable) A sudden impact or blow.
   • How many slams in an old screen door? / Depends how loud you shut it.1981, Shel Silverstein, “How Many, How Much”, in A Light in the Attic, Harper & Row
2. (countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
   • The slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 35, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC
3. (countable) A slam dunk.
4. (countable) One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.
5. (US, colloquial, countable) An insult.
   • I don't mean this as a slam, but you can be really impatient sometimes.
6. (UK, dialectal, uncountable) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.

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