Phrase Hound found 50 phrases and 45 compound words that contain slam. The most common are listed below. Open slam in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
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- grand slamThe bid and winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand.
- slam dunkAn impressively forceful dunk.
- slam pieceA journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a highly unfavorable manner.
- slam-doorApplied to an older kind of passenger train with heavy doors, opened from the inside by reaching out of the window to the handle on the outside.
- body slamAlternative spelling of bodyslam: To throw an opponent bodily on the floor, eg in wrestling or judo, sometimes also throwing one's own body on top of them
- slam-bangNoisy, raucous.
- wall slamThe act of slamming a person against a wall.
- slam-danceAlternative form of slam dance.
- golden slamThe feat of winning all four major championships (a grand slam) plus an Olympic gold medal.
- poetry slamA competition at which poets (slam poets) recite their poems (slam poetry) before an audience and are given scores by judges.
- slam bookAlternative form of slambook: A notebook, passed between students or pen pals, for writing gossip or opinions.
- slam dancingSynonym of slam dance.
- slam outTo succeed in a task, usually by producing something, quickly, efficiently or energetically.
- slam poemA work of slam poetry.
- slam poetSomeone who composes slam poetry.
- slam poetryA modern genre of spoken poetry, performed at informal events called poetry slams before an active audience.
- small slamA contract for six odd tricks
- Serena SlamA type of grand slam in tennis, where a player is reigning champion of all the major tournaments at the same time, but not all the tournaments have occurred in the same tennis season/calendar year.
- slam the doorSynonym of shut the door: To refuse to consider, remember, accept, or engage in.
- slam dunksplural of slam dunk: An impressively forceful dunk.
- little slamThe winning of 12 out of the 13 tricks.
- slam downTo eat or drink (something) quickly.
- data slamAn onslaught of meaningless pieces of data.
- slam backAlternative form of throw back (“drink quickly”).
- slam gunSynonym of zip gun: A crude homemade weapon that fires a projectile.
Compound words 45
- slamballA variety of basketball in which trampolines are positioned in front of each net.
- bodyslamTo throw an opponent bodily on the floor, eg in wrestling or judo, sometimes also throwing one's own body on top of them
- slambangWith a slam and a bang; with noisy or headlong violence.
- antislamPreventing the slamming of a door.
- slambookA notebook, passed between students or pen pals, for writing gossip or opinions.
- chokeslamA wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and driven into the mat.
- doorslamThe act of slamming a door.
- hoverslamSynonym of suicide burn: A method of soft-landing a rocket with a well-timed, high-thrust engine burn starting at the last possible second, such that it reaches a vertical speed of zero at precisely or almost precisely at the exact moment …
- kerslamA sudden slamming sound.
- nonslamSynonym of nonslamming: Designed not to slam shut.