slam

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To shut with force and loud noise: slammed the door.
2. v. To put, throw, or otherwise forcefully move so as to produce a loud noise: slammed the book on the desk.
3. v. To hit or strike with great force.
4. v. Slang To criticize harshly; censure forcefully.
5. v. To close or swing into place with force so as to produce a loud noise.
6. v. To hit something with force; crash: slammed into a truck.
7. n. A forceful impact that makes a loud noise.
8. n. A noise so produced.
9. n. An act of shutting forcefully and loudly: the slam of a door.
10. n. Slang A harsh or devastating criticism.
11. n. A poetry slam.
12. n. The winning of all the tricks or all but one during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games.
13. n. A contract to make a slam.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To close with force and noise; shut with violence; bang.
2. To push violently or rudely; beat; cuff.
3. To throw violently and with a loud, sudden noise: as, to slam a book down upon the table.
4. In card-playing, to beat by winning all the tricks in a hand or game.
5. To move or close violently and with noise; strike violently and noisily against something.
6. n. A violent and noisy collision or bang, as when a door is suddenly shut by the wind, or by a vehement push: as, the shutters were closed with a slam.
7. n. The winning of all the tricks in a hand at whist, or in a game of euchre.
8. n. The refuse of alumworks.
9. n. An old game at cards.
10. n. An ill-shaped, shambling fellow.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive, ergative To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
2. v. transitive, ergative To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
3. v. transitive To strike forcefully with some implement.
4. v. transitive, colloquial To speak badly of.
5. v. basketball To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
6. v. intransitive, bridge To make a slam bid.
7. v. transitive to change providers (e.g. of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without clear (if any) consent.
8. v. to drink off, to drink quickly
9. n. countable A sudden impact or blow.
10. n. countable The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
11. n. countable (basketball) A slam dunk.
12. n. countable, colloquial, US An insult.
13. n. uncountable The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
14. n. A poetry slam.
15. n. UK, dialect The refuse of alum works.
16. n. obsolete A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
17. n. card games Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
18. n. countable, bridge A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
19. v. transitive, card games To defeat by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang.
2. v. To put in or on some place with force and loud noise; -- usually with down.
3. v. Prov. Eng. To strike with some implement with force; hence, to beat or cuff.
4. v. Prov. Eng. To strike down; to slaughter.
5. v. To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
6. v. To come or swing against something, or to shut, with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
7. n. The act of one who, or that which, slams.
8. n. The shock and noise produced in slamming.
9. n. (Card Playing) Winning all the tricks of a deal (called, in bridge, grand slam, the winning of all but one of the thirteen tricks being called a little slam or small slam).
10. n. Prov. Eng. The refuse of alum works.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge
2. v. close violently
3. n. the noise made by the forceful impact of two objects
4. n. a forceful impact that makes a loud noise
5. n. an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
6. v. dance the slam dance
7. v. strike violently
8. v. throw violently