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wall-slam

wall-slam is the alternative form of wall slam.

Meaning of wall slam

Noun

wall slam (plural wall slams)

  1. The act of slamming a person against a wall.
    • Van Hove lavishly externalizes the implied violence of capitalism with punches, neck wrenches, wall slams, and sinuous pantomimes of sexual assault.2010 September 22, “Theater Review: The Mama Grizzly of The Little Foxes”, in New York (Vulture section), New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2010

Verb

wall-slam (third-person singular simple present wall-slams, present participle wall-slamming, simple past and past participle wall-slammed)

  1. (uncommon) To slam against a wall.
    • For Mai & Yuri, the waiting game consists of hitting him out of his Rush move where he tries to wall-slam you.1995 March 22, SirRichard, “[KOF94] Help with Rugal t”, in rec.games.video.arcade (Usenet), archived from the original on 03 Dec 2025
    • Greer is an aggressive fielder with a flair for making diving catches coming in and wall-slamming catches going back.1998, Sports Team Analysis and Tracking Systems, Inc., “Rusty Greer”, in John Dewan, Don Zminda, Jim Callis, editors, The Scouting Notebook: 1998, Skokie, Ill.: STATS Publishing, →ISBN, page 296...

Forms of wall-slam

Noun
pluralwall-slams
Verb
third-person singular presentwall-slams
present participlewall-slamming
past participlewall-slammed
pastwall-slammed

Questions about wall-slam

What does wall-slam mean?
Wall-slam means to slam against a wall.
What is wall-slam the alternative form of?
Wall-slam is the alternative form of wall slam.
What part of speech is wall-slam?
Wall-slam is a verb.
What is the past tense of wall-slam?
The past tense of wall-slam is wall-slammed.

Words near wall-slam in the dictionary

  1. wall-rocket
  2. wall-rockets
  3. wall-shade
  4. wall-shades
  5. wall-sided
  6. wall-slam
  7. wall-slammed
  8. wall-slamming
  9. wall-slams
  10. Wall-Sun-Sun prime
  11. Wall-Sun-Sun primes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wall-slam (page history and authors); wall slam (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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