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slammer

English edit

Etymology edit

slam +‎ -er

Pronunciation edit

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  • Rhymes: -æmə(ɹ)

Noun edit

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.

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Verb edit

slammer

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

Conjugation edit

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 edit

Etymology edit

Deverbal from slamra.

Noun edit

slammer n

  1. clatter, clattering

Declension edit

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

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