slammer

From slam +‎ -er.

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• Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)

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 June 7, “Better Than Prison”, in Time:

     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.

8. A fraudster who carries out slamming (fraudulent changes to a customer's service).

• Alabama slammer
• tequila slammer

• lammers

• IPA^(key): /sla.me/

slammer

1. to crowdsurf
2. to take part in a poetry slam

Deverbal of slamra.

slammer n

1. clatter, clattering

• slamra

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