slammer

English

Etymology

slam +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)

Noun

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.

Derived terms

• Alabama slammer
• tequila slammer

Translations

one who competes in a poetry slam

• Hungarian: slammer

Anagrams

• lammers

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla.me/

Verb

slammer

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of slammer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	slammer
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	slammant /sla.mɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		slammé /sla.me/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	slamme /slam/	slammes /slam/	slamme /slam/	slammons /sla.mɔ̃/	slammez /sla.me/	slamment /slam/
	imperfect	slammais /sla.mɛ/	slammais /sla.mɛ/	slammait /sla.mɛ/	slammions /sla.mjɔ̃/	slammiez /sla.mje/	slammaient /sla.mɛ/
	past historic2	slammai /sla.me/	slammas /sla.ma/	slamma /sla.ma/	slammâmes /sla.mam/	slammâtes /sla.mat/	slammèrent /sla.mɛʁ/
	future	slammerai /slam.ʁe/	slammeras /slam.ʁa/	slammera /slam.ʁa/	slammerons /slam.ʁɔ̃/	slammerez /slam.ʁe/	slammeront /slam.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	slammerais /slam.ʁɛ/	slammerais /slam.ʁɛ/	slammerait /slam.ʁɛ/	slammerions /sla.mə.ʁjɔ̃/	slammeriez /sla.mə.ʁje/	slammeraient /slam.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	slamme /slam/	slammes /slam/	slamme /slam/	slammions /sla.mjɔ̃/	slammiez /sla.mje/	slamment /slam/
	imperfect2	slammasse /sla.mas/	slammasses /sla.mas/	slammât /sla.ma/	slammassions /sla.ma.sjɔ̃/	slammassiez /sla.ma.sje/	slammassent /sla.mas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	slamme /slam/	—	slammons /sla.mɔ̃/	slammez /sla.me/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Swedish

Etymology

Deverbal from slamra.

Noun

slammer n

1. clatter, clattering

Declension

Declension of slammer
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	slammer	slamret	—	—
Genitive	slammers	slamrets	—	—

Related terms

• slamra

References

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