the slammer

noun

informal

: a prison or jail

He got 10 years in the slammer.

Examples of the slammer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

With Dad in the slammer, Trevor’s mom, Karen Cain, juggled homeschooling duties with earning money cleaning house in nearby Grants Pass, doing select-cut logging, and had support from the collectibles community. — Matt Thompson, SPIN, 11 May 2026

Although by this point Garrison had already been plying the slammer trade for several years, Alfortish wasn’t shy about offering him tactical advice. — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026

There's something undeniably sweet about this perennial classic, despite that, if it were made today, he'd be handcuffed and thrown in the slammer. — Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Dec. 2025

In contrast, a child molester was sentenced to 21 months in the slammer. — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for the slammer

• programmer
• sledgehammer
• tetramer
• amor
• clamor
• clamour
• glamor
• glamour
• grammar
• hammer
• jammer
• rammer