Main Entry: ³slam

Function: verb

Inflected Form(s): slammed; slam·ming

Date: circa 1691

transitive verb 1 : to strike or beat hard : knock
2 : to shut forcibly and noisily : bang
3 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 verb 1 : to make a banging noise
2 : 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