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slam 1  audio  (slm) KEY  

VERB:
slammed , slam·ming , slams
VERB:
tr.
  1. To shut with force and loud noise: slammed the door.
  2. To put, throw, or otherwise forcefully move so as to produce a loud noise: slammed the book on the desk.
  3. To hit or strike with great force.
  4. Slang To criticize harshly; censure forcefully.
VERB:
intr.
  1. To close or swing into place with force so as to produce a loud noise.
  2. To hit something with force; crash: slammed into a truck.
NOUN:
    1. A forceful impact that makes a loud noise.
    2. A noise so produced.
  2. An act of shutting forcefully and loudly: the slam of a door.
  3. Slang A harsh or devastating criticism.
  4. A poetry slam.
ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse slambra, to strike at


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