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slam
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /slæm/
- Rhymes: -æm
Etymology 1
From Middle English *slammen (not recorded), apparently from a Scandinavian source ultimately from Old Norse slæma, slœma (“to slam, swing a weapon, strike an object out of reach”), related to Old Norse slamra, slambra (“to slam”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål slamre (“to slam”), Swedish slamra (“to pound, beat, make a clatter, rattle”), Norwegian Nynorsk slamra (“to sway, dangle”).
Verb
slam (third-person singular simple present slams, present participle slamming, simple past and past participle slammed)
- (transitive, ergative) To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.
- (transitive, ergative) To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)
- (transitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.
- (intransitive) To strike against suddenly and heavily.
- (transitive, colloquial) To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.
- (basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
- (intransitive, bridge) To make a slam bid.
- (transitive, card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
- 1742, Edmond Hoyle, A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist
- D having seven Spades in his Hand wins them, and consequently slams A and B
- 1742, Edmond Hoyle, A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist
- (transitive, slang) To change providers (e.g. of domain registration or telephone carrier) for a customer without clear (if any) consent.
- (transitive) To drink off, to drink quickly.
- To compete in a poetry slam.
- (transitive, drugs, slang) To inject intravenously; shoot up.
Synonyms
- (drink quickly): See also Thesaurus:drink
- (shoot up): bang
Derived terms
- slam the door on
- slam on the brakes
Translations
Noun
slam (countable and uncountable, plural slams)
- (countable) A sudden impact or blow.
- 1981, Shel Silverstein, “How Many, How Much”, A Light in the Attic, Harper & Row:
- How many slams in an old screen door? / Depends how loud you shut it.
- 1981, Shel Silverstein, “How Many, How Much”, A Light in the Attic, Harper & Row:
- (countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.
- The slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam.
- (countable, basketball) A slam dunk.
- (countable, colloquial, US) An insult.
- (uncountable) The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.
- A poetry slam.
- A slambook.
- 2017, Mark Duffett, Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music (page 194)
- Regular friendship books had a variety of variations, such as slams, crams, and decos.
- 2017, Mark Duffett, Fan Identities and Practices in Context: Dedicated to Music (page 194)
- (Britain, dialect) The refuse of alum works.
- (music) A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs
Translations
Etymology 2
Origin unknown.
Noun
slam (countable and uncountable, plural slams)
- (uncountable, obsolete) A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.
- A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.
- Synonym: spit
- (countable, card games) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.
- (countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.
- (countable, sports) Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.
Derived terms
- grand slam
- little slam
Verb
slam (third-person singular simple present slams, present participle slamming, simple past and past participle slammed)
- (transitive, card games) To defeat by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.
Etymology 3
Compare Dutch slomp, German Schlampe.
Noun
slam (plural slams)
- (obsolete) A shambling fellow.
Anagrams
- AMLs, AMSL, LAMs, Lams, MASL, SAML, alms, lams, mals, masl, salm
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?slam]
Noun
slam
- genitive plural of sláma
French
Noun
slam m (plural slams)
- poetry slam
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [slam]
Noun
slam
- dative of sl?
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From German Schlamm
Noun
slam n (definite singular slammet, uncountable)
- mud, ooze, slime, sludge, slurry
References
- “slam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “slam” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From German Schlamm
Noun
slam n (definite singular slammet, uncountable)
- mud, ooze, slime, sludge, slurry
References
- “slam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Volapük
Proper noun
slam
- Islam
Declension
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jostle
English
Etymology
Originally justle (“to have sex with”), formed from Middle English jousten, from the Old French joster (“to joust”), from Latin iuxt? (“next to”), from iung? (“join, connect”), equivalent to joust +? -le.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d??s.?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?d??.s?l/
- Rhymes: -?s?l
Verb
jostle (third-person singular simple present jostles, present participle jostling, simple past and past participle jostled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside.
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, London: J. Johnson, Part 1, Chapter 13, Section 3, pp. 434-435,[1]
- Besides, various are the paths to power and fame which by accident or choice men pursue, and though they jostle against each other, for men of the same profession are seldom friends, yet there is a much greater number of their fellow-creatures with whom they never clash. But women are very differently situated with respect to each other—for they are all rivals.
- 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening, Chapter 12, p. 214,[2]
- It is not that there are several systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which are perpetually jostling each other, or which clash whenever they come in contact, and which move on by the one vanquishing the other. But, on the contrary, each of these economies takes its uninterrupted course, as if there were no other moving within the same space […]
- 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, Volume 1, Chapter 3, pp. 370-371,[3]
- […] when the lord of a Lincolnshire or Shropshire manor appeared in Fleet Street, he was as easily distinguished from the resident population as a Turk or a Lascar. […] Bullies jostled him into the kennel. Hackney coachmen splashed him from head to foot. […]
- 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, London: J. Johnson, Part 1, Chapter 13, Section 3, pp. 434-435,[1]
- (intransitive) To move through by pushing and shoving.
- 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book One, Chapter 3,[4]
- Axia and Amory, acquaintances of an hour, jostled behind a waiter to a table at a point of vantage; there they took seats and watched.
- 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, Book One, Chapter 3,[4]
- (transitive) To be close to or in physical contact with.
- 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, London: John Murray, Chapter 4, p. 114,[5]
- […] the advantages of diversification of structure, with the accompanying differences of habit and constitution, determine that the inhabitants, which thus jostle each other most closely, shall, as a general rule, belong to what we call different genera and orders.
- 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, London: John Murray, Chapter 4, p. 114,[5]
- (intransitive) To contend or vie in order to acquire something.
- 1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, in Tales of My Landlord, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Third Series, Volume 1, Chapter 1, p. 22,[6]
- Dick, who, in serious earnest, was supposed to have considerable natural talents for his profession, and whose vain and sanguine disposition never permitted him to doubt for a moment of ultimate success, threw himself headlong into the crowd which jostled and struggled for notice and preferment.
- 1917, Rudyard Kipling, “The Children,” poem accompanying the story “The Honours of War” in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan, pp. 129-130,[7]
- […] Our statecraft, our learning
- Delivered them bound to the Pit and alive to the burning
- Whither they mirthfully hastened as jostling for honour.
- 1819, Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor, in Tales of My Landlord, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Third Series, Volume 1, Chapter 1, p. 22,[6]
- (dated, slang) To pick or attempt to pick pockets.
Translations
See also
- justle
- joust
Noun
jostle (plural jostles)
- The act of jostling someone or something; push, shove.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: J. Cooke, 1765, p. 241,[8]
- I had full hold of her Watch, but giving a great Jostle, as if somebody had thrust me against her, and in the Juncture giving the Watch a fair pull, I found it would not come, so I let it go that Moment, and cried out as if I had been killed, that somebody had trod upon my Foot […]
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, London: J. Cooke, 1765, p. 241,[8]
- The action of a jostling crowd.
- 1865, Harriet Beecher Stowe (under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield), The Chimney-Corner, Boston: Ticknor & Field, 1868, Chapter 12, p. 291,[9]
- For years to come, the average of lone women will be largely increased; and the demand, always great, for some means by which they many provide for themselves, in the rude jostle of the world, will become more urgent and imperative.
- 1865, Harriet Beecher Stowe (under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield), The Chimney-Corner, Boston: Ticknor & Field, 1868, Chapter 12, p. 291,[9]
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