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- Dictionaryslamming/ˈslamɪŋ/
noun
- 1. an insulting and critical attack: informal "the film got quite a slamming from the entertainment media"
- 2. the practice of switching a customer from one telephone service provider to another without their authorization.
adjective
- 1. extremely good; excellent: informal "he gave me a slamming deal"
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(Definition of slamming from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of slamming. slamming. The anger and frustration strategy references expressing frustration by swearing, slamming things down, crumpling up paper, and losing temper for a moment. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
1. : to shut forcibly and noisily : bang. 2. a. : to set or slap down violently or noisily. slammed down the phone. b. : to propel, thrust, or produce by or as if by striking hard. slam on the brakes. slammed the car into a wall. 3. : to strike or beat hard : knock. 4. : to criticize harshly. intransitive verb. 1. : to make a banging noise. 2.
Define slamming. slamming synonyms, slamming pronunciation, slamming translation, English dictionary definition of slamming. v. slammed , slam·ming , slams v. tr. 1. To shut with force and loud noise: slammed the door. 2. To put, throw, or otherwise forcefully move so as to...
SLAM definition: 1. to (cause to) move against a hard surface with force and usually a loud noise: 2. to criticize…. Learn more.
(Definition of slamming from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of slamming. slamming. She remembers the sound of the car door slamming. From CNN. Now, she and others predict, slamming on the brakes would hurtle kids through the system and back into trouble. From OregonLive.com.
Background: In the last decade, European cities saw the development of "slamming," a practice related to chemsex that combines three elements: a sexual context, psychostimulant drug use, and injection practices.
To slam someone or something means to criticize them very severely. [journalism] The famed film-maker slammed the claims as 'an outrageous lie'. [VERB noun] Britain has been slammed by the United Nations for having one of the worst race relations records in the world. [VERB noun]
What does the word slamming mean? There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the word slamming. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. See meaning & use. How is the word slamming pronounced? British English. /ˈslamɪŋ/ SLAM-ing. U.S. English. /ˈslæmɪŋ/ SLAM-ing. See pronunciation.
Slamming definition: the switching of a customer's telephone or other public utility to another service provider without the customer's authorization.. See examples of SLAMMING used in a sentence.
Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word Frequency. slamming in American English. (ˈslæmɪŋ ) US. noun. the practice of switching someone's telephone service, usually long-distance service, from one company to another without the customer's permission. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition.
