Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - slam

~1 v 1 »DOOR/GATE« if a door, gate etc slams, or if someone slams it, it shuts with a loud noise  (Please don't slam the door. | We could hear people shouting and doors slamming in the house next door. | slam shut)  (A door slammed shut in the distance.) 2 »PUT STH SOMEWHERE« T always + adv/prep to put something on or against a surface with a fast violent movement  (slam sth/on/down etc)  (Henry slammed the phone down and walked angrily out of the room.) 3 slam on the brakes to make a car stop very suddenly 4 »CRITICIZE STH« a word used especially in newspapers, meaning to criticize something strongly  (The government's amnesty for tax-dodgers was slammed today by opposition leaders. | slam sb for sth)  (The television company was slammed by the media for its portrayal of a gang rape.) 5 slam the door in sb's face a) to shut a door hard when someone is trying to come in b) to rudely refuse to meet someone or talk to them slam into sth phr v to drive or move very fast towards something and hit it  (The car slammed into a lamp-post.) ~2 n C usually singular the noise or action of a door or gate slamming  (- see also grand slam)