slam1 verbslam2 noun
slamslam1 /slæm/ ●●○ verb (past tense and past participle slammed, present participle slamming) 
WORD ORIGINslam1
Origin:
1600-1700 Probably from a Scandinavian languageVERB TABLE
slam
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | slam |
| he, she, it | slams | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | slammed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have slammed |
| he, she, it | has slammed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had slammed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will slam |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have slammed |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am slamming |
| he, she, it | is slamming | |
| you, we, they | are slamming | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was slamming |
| you, we, they | were slamming | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been slamming |
| he, she, it | has been slamming | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been slamming |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be slamming |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been slamming |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Bankers slammed Congress' plans to cap interest rates on credit cards.
- Conditions over the Pacific could cause huge storms to slam California this winter.
- He slammed the door so hard that the glass cracked.
- Jane marched out of the room slamming the door behind her.
- Outside in the street, car doors slammed and people were shouting.
- Police slammed drivers for ignoring safety warnings.
- She heard a door slam shut and the sound of footsteps on the path.
- Sullivan never misses a chance to slam the tobacco industry.
- Balfour slammed his canary-yellow, industrial vacuum truck into gear and roared after the varmint in a cloud of choking brown dust.
- Comparatively, Northridge came through almost untarnished, and Los Angeles emerged shaken but hardly slammed.
- He threw the last items into his suitcase and slammed the lid down and locked it.
- Paul Lambert then met Moravcik's cut-back and slammed his side's third past the goalkeeper.
- She hastened back into the corridor and slammed the door.
- Terror jolted through me, and I pushed the book back into the polished box, and slammed its lid shut.
- The sound of the four doors clunking is like rifle-bolts slamming home.
- While you can click the 42oG's doors shut with fingertip pressure, slam them and they rattle.
THESAURUS
to stop being open, or to make something stop being open. You use close and shutespecially about your eyes, your mouth, a door, a window, or a container: · Can I close the window?· Her eyes slowly closed.· He closed the door gently, so as not to wake the children.
to close something. Shut sometimes has a feeling of doing something quickly and firmly, whereas close sounds more careful: · He shut the door with a loud bang.· Shut your eyes and go to sleep.
to close a door or lid quickly and noisily, especially because you are angry: · She left the room, slamming the door behind her.
to close curtains by pulling them across a window: · The curtains were still drawn at ten o'clock in the morning.
to close a container by putting a lid onto it: · Did you put the lid on the cookie jar?
to close something so that no air or water can get in or out: · In this experiment, the chamber must be completely sealed.
Longman Language Activatorto strongly criticize someone or something to strongly and publicly criticize a person, plan, or belief that you completely disagree with: · Several actors have attacked proposals to cut the theatre's budget.attack somebody for (doing) something: · Union leaders attacked management for eliminating employee health benefits.
to criticize someone or something very strongly in a public statement -- used especially in newspapers: · Sullivan never misses a chance to slam the tobacco industry.slam somebody for doing something: · Police slammed drivers for ignoring safety warnings.
to strongly criticize something such as a film, play, or a performance by writing about it in a newspaper, talking about it on television etc: · The movie was panned by all the critics.
to find a lot of faults in someone's ideas or arguments and criticize them very severely: · After the prosecutor had presented his case, the defence lawyer tore his arguments to shreds.
if someone is pilloried , they are criticized very strongly and publicly by a lot of people: · Harper was pilloried in the press after his team's sixth consecutive defeat.· Middleton suffered the ultimate humiliation of being pilloried by his colleagues in front of the television cameras.
informal to criticize every part of someone's character or work: · Field did a complete hatchet job on his former colleague at a cabinet meeting last week.
informal to criticize someone very strongly for something they have done: · The teacher really laid into us this morning -- told us we'd all fail if we didn't start doing some work.lay into about: · You should have heard my wife laying into me about coming home late last night.
to put something somewhere quickly or carelessly informal to push something quickly or carelessly into a space or container: shove something in/into/under etc: · Shove anything you don't want in that sack.· He bundled the papers together and shoved them into a drawer.
spoken to put something somewhere, especially quickly or carelessly: stick something on/in/over something: · I stuck the pictures in a drawer and forgot all about them.· "What should I do with these?" "Oh, just stick them anywhere."
to carelessly drop something somewhere in an untidy way, especially something heavy: · People dump rubbish in the lanes, and the council is slow to clean it up.dump something on/in/there etc: · Who dumped all these books on my desk?dump something down: · I dumped my heavy suitcase down on the doorstep.
to put something down somewhere quickly and violently because you are angry: slam something down: · She slammed the cup down, and coffee splashed all over him.slam down something: · "To hell with you," he shouted, and slammed down the phone.
to put something forcefully and suddenly into a place: thrust something in/on/under etc: · Clark thrust a paper sack across the counter and demanded money.· She thrust the bag into my hands. "Hide it," she hissed.· He nervously thrust his hands into his pockets.
informal to put something somewhere quickly for a short time: pop something in/into/under etc: · She took out a piece of chewing gum and popped it in her mouth.· Pop it in the microwave for a couple of minutes.
British informal to put something somewhere quickly and without thinking carefully: bung something in/into/on etc: · Could you bung those clothes into the washing machine for me?· Just sign the card, bung it in an envelope and send it off.
especially British /plunk American to put something down somewhere noisily and carelessly: plonk something on/in/there etc: · She brought a bottle of beer and a glass and plonked them on the table in front of me.· Gamblers plunked nickels and quarters into the slot machines.plonk something down: · Are those things for me? Just plonk them down anywhere.· Gary plunked a dollar down on the counter to pay for his Coke.
to become shut to become shut: · He walked out and the door shut behind him.· There was a bang as the gates shut.· Her eyes closed, and she fell into a deep sleep.
also slam shut if a door slams or slams shut , it shuts quickly and makes a loud noise: · Outside in the street, car doors slammed and people were shouting.· She heard a door slam shut and the sound of footsteps on the path.
if a door, window, gate etc slides , blows , swings etc shut , it shuts by sliding, being blown, swinging etc: · The window suddenly blew shut, with a loud bang.· The elevator doors silently slid shut.
to close a door, window, gate etc to move a door, window, gate etc so that it is no longer open: · Come in and shut the door behind you.· Someone had shut the gate to stop the sheep getting out onto the road.· She heard Charlotte downstairs shutting the windows, and locking up for the night.
to shut something, especially in a careful way: · Do you mind if I close the window?· She took the necklace out of the box and closed the lid.
to shut a door quickly so that it makes a loud noise, especially because you are angry: · Jane marched out of the room slamming the door behind her.· He slammed the door so hard that the glass cracked.
to push, kick, slide etc something so that it shuts: · The woman pushed the door shut with her foot.· It started raining, so I quickly pulled the window shut.· "Sorry, we're closed,'' said the official, sliding the wooden panel shut.
to move a door so that it is almost shut: · "Tell me what's wrong,'' I said, pulling the door to.· She pushed the door to against the blinding sunlight.
to close curtains by pulling them across a window: · Let's draw the curtains. We don't want people looking in.· The curtains were closed and the room was in darkness.
when a vehicle stops moving if a vehicle or its driver stops , the vehicle stops moving: · Could you stop just here on the left?· We'd better stop at the next gas station.· A yellow car stopped outside the house.
if a car or its driver pulls up , the car comes closer to something or someone and stops: pull up at/outside/next to etc: · We pulled up at a small cafe just outside Bordeaux.· A blue van pulled up behind us.
if a car or its driver pulls in , the driver stops the car at the side of the road or in a parking space: · I rounded the corner, looking for a place to pull in.· Jeff parked in front of the house and I pulled in beside him.
if a car or its driver pulls over , the driver drives to the side of the road and stops: · A policeman was standing by the side of the road, signalling to me to pull over.· I pulled over and looked at the map.· The truck pulled over and a man got out.
especially written to gradually get slower and then stop: · The taxi came to a stop outside the hotel.· The bus slowed down and came to a halt at some traffic lights.come to a sudden/abrupt halt/stop: · As Jamie spoke, the train came to an abrupt halt, nearly throwing us all on the floor.
especially written to gradually get slower and then stop completely - use this about traffic or about a vehicle: · The train came to a standstill about a mile outside Abbeville and didn't move for 20 minutes.· Traffic in the city ground to a halt as the streets filled with angry demonstrators.
if a vehicle or its driver brakes , the driver makes it slow down or stop by using the brakes: · I saw a roadblock ahead, and braked.brake hard/sharply: · A bus came round the corner and braked sharply.
to make a car, bus etc stop very suddenly by pressing very hard on the brakes: · I slammed on the brakes, skidding to a stop.
to end a telephone call to finish a telephone conversation or stop it before it has finished by putting down the receiver (=the part of a telephone you speak into): · If a caller is rude, just hang up.hang up the phone/receiver: · I said I'd be right there. I hung up the phone and grabbed my purse and car keys.hang up on somebody (=put the telephone down while someone is still talking): · Mitchell was furious and hung up on him.
especially British to put down the receiver (=the part of a telephone you speak into) after you have finished talking to someone: · There was a long pause, and she was about to put the phone down when the voice came back again.
to put the telephone down while someone is still speaking to you, because you are angry: · Call her. The worst thing she could do is slam down the phone.slam the phone down/slam down the phone on: · He tried to talk to her, but she slammed the phone down on him.
if you get cut off or get disconnected when you are making a telephone call, the telephone suddenly stops working in the middle of your conversation and you cannot continue: · We got cut off in the middle of the conversation.· I don't know what happened, we just got disconnected.
British to end a telephone call: · I suppose I'd better ring off now -- we've been on the phone for over an hour.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
He slammed the door shut.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
He slammed the door shut. (=use them suddenly and with a lot of force)· The car in front stopped suddenly and I had to slam on the brakes.
(=shut it loudly, usually because you are angry)· He strode from the room, slamming the door behind him.
(=shuts loudly)· I heard the front door slam.
(=put it down hard, because you are angry)· I was so mad I just slammed the phone down.
· The front door slammed shut.
· He pulled the trapdoor shut over his head.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· It flung open and slammed back against the wall.· Sharpe slammed back his heels and took off down the road as if the demons of hell were at his heels.· She slammed back the driving seat and looked at the unfamiliar dashboard with all its foreign signals.· As the freighter slammed back down, the solid rock above began to loosen, huge boulders crashing into the decks.
· I slammed down my cup and stood up.· Seconds passed slowly, then I saw the other half come slamming down.· Again a door slammed down below.· It slammed down with a violent impact upon a desk in the first row.· All that dealers needed was the ability to persist after the phone had been slammed down on them.· Quinn crossed the lobby fifteen seconds after slamming down the phone.· With a sudden lurch, the phone slams down and a great hand goes out in greeting.· Cornelius slammed down the receiver and stalked back to the car.
· He jabs his finger to slam home his message and he is happy to press flesh and kiss babies.· The sound of the four doors clunking is like rifle-bolts slamming home.· There was no spasmodic jerking, nothing but the angry resurgence of the phosphorus embers as the bullets slammed home.· The result Kelly too a tumble and Gavin Peacock slammed home the kick.
NOUN· Death Horror-struck, all he could do was slam on the brakes and pray.· My friend grabbed my arm and yelled and I slammed on the brakes.· If they don't agree on promotion, the stadium's financial backers may slam on the brakes.· All she could do was to slam on the brakes and shut her eyes.
· Then he leapt into the police car, slammed it into gear and drove off.· He got out of the car and slammed the door.· Then there was a commotion somewhere outside and a car door slammed, followed by a motor being raced into life.· The other one began loosing shots into the car, sending bullets slamming into the backs of the seats.· The car door slammed, and he was gone.· He nodded a goodbye, forced a smile, then eased himself into his car and slammed the door.· Suddenly the car slams to a halt.· As the car door slammed, she stood up, eyes anxious about the living room.
· Millet grinned and stepped out on to the landing and behind him the door slammed cheerfully.· A door slammed between her and the person she loved most.· From her vantage point inside the doorway, Lily saw Mrs Arbuthnot open the front door and slam it after her.· His wailing faded, a door slammed shut.· As she heard the noise of the front door slamming she awoke with a feeling of relief.· The screen door slams behind me.· I heard a car pull up in front of the apartment and heard the door slam shut.· At 44, she found most doors slammed shut.
· He slammed his clenched fist into the desk, and began to cry.· I slammed my fist on the table.· Vologsky slammed his fist down upon the table as the injustice of it all descended upon him again.· As he felt Joe begin fumbling with his trousers Michael stifled an urge to slam his fist into Joe's head.· Very nearly slammed her fist on the table and launched into the ancient and terminally tedious arguments of the left.· Leave the hands on your collar but slam your fist or elbow into the attacker's nose.
· He slammed his hand down on the top of the dressing table, causing some of the bottles to topple over.· But during batting practice a line drive slammed off his left hand, and he had to be scratched.· He slammed his hand on the desk and, in a quick tipsy glide, slid behind me.· Lorton slammed his hand on it.· Lori Garbacz was not quite so fortunate when an open window slammed shut on her hands breaking two of her fingers.
· Dropping her soap-bag on top of the folded clothes, she slammed the case lid down and ferociously snapped the fastenings.· He threw the last items into his suitcase and slammed the lid down and locked it.· He unlocked the boot, scrambled in, and slammed the lid on himself.· Terror jolted through me, and I pushed the book back into the polished box, and slammed its lid shut.· All catch sight of each other and slam down lids.
· But although she slammed the phone down in fine style, she was shaken horribly.· So you can understand why when you called I wanted to slam down the phone.· On Thursday Major Vanavskaya suffered her first serious set-back, let out a very unladylike expletive and slammed the phone down.· She answered, then slammed down the phone when she got no response.· He tried to calm her, but she slammed the phone down on him.· I could tell Roque was trembling with anger, and I admit to feeling bad when he slammed down the phone.· Dully punching Lucy's old number, slamming the phone down on unattainable.· Quinn crossed the lobby fifteen seconds after slamming down the phone.
· Cornelius slammed down the receiver and stalked back to the car.· He slammed the receiver down so hard that the plastic cracked.· Even though he sounded apologetic, Celestine slammed down the receiver.
· Another time Joe heard his adopted teenage brother Ron being slammed against a wall.· It was the supreme test Manville was aware of his back slamming against a wall.· He was slammed into the wall with crushing force and enough power to knock the wind from him.· It flung open and slammed back against the wall.· He staggered, his back slamming against the wall across the aisle.· His Ferrari barrel-rolled twice before slamming into a tyre wall, but Schuey walked away without a scratch.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► slam the door in somebody’s face
1door etc [intransitive, transitive] if a door, gate etc slams, or if someone slams it, it shuts with a loud noise SYN bang: - I slammed on the brakes, skidding to a stop.
- All she could do was to slam on the brakes and shut her eyes.
- Death Horror-struck, all he could do was slam on the brakes and pray.
- If they don't agree on promotion, the stadium's financial backers may slam on the brakes.
- My friend grabbed my arm and yelled and I slammed on the brakes.
- The driver slammed on the brakes; the Jeep screeched to a halt.
We heard a car door slam. He slammed the door shut.► see thesaurus at close2put something somewhere [transitive always + adverb/preposition] to put something on or against a surface with a fast violent movementslam something down/against/onto Henry slammed the phone down angrily.3hit with force [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] to hit or attack someone or something with a lot of forceslam into/against etc All 155 passengers died instantly when the plane slammed into the mountain.4criticize [transitive] to criticize someone or something strongly – used especially in newspapers SYN slate: Local media slammed plans to build a prison in the area.slam somebody for something The council was slammed for its unfair selection procedure.5slam on the brakes to make a car stop very suddenly by pressing the brakes very hard6slam the door in somebody’s face a)to close a door hard when someone is trying to come in b)to rudely refuse to meet someone or talk to themslam1 verbslam2 noun
slamslam2 noun [countable usually singular] the noise or action of a door, window etc slamming