Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - slam
Slam
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1. v. & n. --v. (slammed, slamming) 1 tr. & intr. shut forcefully and loudly. 2 tr. put down (an object) with a similar sound. 3 intr. move violently (he slammed out of the room). 4 tr. & intr. put or come into sudden action (slam the brakes on). 5 tr. sl. criticize severely. 6 tr. sl. hit. 7 tr. sl. gain an easy victory over. --n. 1 a sound of or as of a slammed door. 2 the shutting of a door etc. with a loud bang. 3 (usu. prec. by the) US sl. prison. Etymology: prob. f. Scand.: cf. ON slam(b)ra 2. n. Cards the winning of every trick in a game. Phrases and idioms grand slam 1 Bridge the winning of 13 tricks. 2 the winning of all of a group of championships or matches in a sport. small (or little) slam Bridge the winning of 12 tricks. Etymology: orig. name of a card-game: perh. f. obs. slampant trickery
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I. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1660 grand ~, little ~, II. noun Etymology: perhaps of Scandinavian origin; akin to Norwegian ~re to bang, Swedish ~ra to rattle Date: 1672 a heavy blow or impact, 2. a noisy violent closing, a banging noise, a cutting or violent criticism, ~mer, a poetry competition performed before judges, III. verb (~med; ~ming) Date: circa 1691 transitive verb to strike or beat hard ; knock, to shut forcibly and noisily ; bang, 3. to set or slap down violently or noisily , to propel, thrust, or produce by or as if by striking hard , to criticize harshly, intransitive verb to make a banging noise, to function (as in moving) with emphatic and usually noisy vigor , to utter verbal abuse or harsh criticism ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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