Main Entry:

³slam

Function:

verb

Inflected Form(s):

slammed; slam·ming

Date:

circa 1691

transitive verb1: to strike or beat hard : knock2: to shut forcibly and noisily : bang3 a: to set or slap down violently or noisily <slammed down the phone> b: to propel, thrust, or produce by or as if by striking hard <slam on the brakes> <slammed the car into a wall>4: to criticize harshlyintransitive verb1: to make a banging noise2: to function (as in moving) with emphatic and usually noisy vigor <the hurricane slammed into the coast> <slammed out of the room>3: to utter verbal abuse or harsh criticism