slammer

slammer

English

Etymology

slam +‎ -er

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)

Noun

slammer (plural slammers)

1. One who, or that which, slams.
   • 1989, Jane Howard, Margaret Mead: A Life (page 27)

     Margaret was also, by her own admission, a determined slammer of doors.

2. (slang, usually "the slammer") jail, prison.
   • 1971, "Better Than Prison," Time, 7 Jun.,

     A man being sentenced for starving some horses chose 24 hours in the slammer with no food rather than seven days with the regular amenities.

3. A tequila cocktail that is slammed onto a surface to induce fizzing.
4. One who takes part in slam-dance.
5. One who competes in a poetry slam.
6. In the game of Pogs, the heavier piece used to strike the stack of counters.
   • 1997, Iona Archibald Opie, ‎Peter Opie, Children's Games with Things (page 120)

     The basic modern 'Pog' game is played thus. Each child tosses a pog into the arena, face-up or face-down, as agreed. Each player in turn takes his slammer and pitches it hard onto the accumulated pile of pogs.

7. (UK, slang) A slam-door train.
   • 2009, Claude Lambert, On Pets and Men (page 33)

     I was in Britain, wanting to take a train to Portsmouth, and I only needed a one-way ticket. I did love the English trains; we still had slammers then. A slammer is a train where you got to slam the door shut yourself.

Derived terms

• Alabama slammer

Translations

one who competes in a poetry slam

Hungarian: slammer

Anagrams

• lammers

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Swedish

Etymology

Deverbal from slamra.

Noun

slammer n

1. clatter, clattering

Declension

Declension of slammer
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	slammer	slamret	—	—
Genitive	slammers	slamrets	—	—

Related terms

• slamra

References

• slammer in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• slammer in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• slammer in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)