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Definition of Slam on
1. Verb. Apply carelessly. "Slap some paint onto the wall"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slam On
Literary usage of Slam on
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Foster's Duplicate Whist: A Complete System of Instruction in Whist Strategy by Robert Frederick Foster (1894)
"Should AB make four on the overplay of the first hand and a slam on the second,
they gain one trick on YZ. Should they make four on the first and twelve ..."
2. Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Fire Underwriters Association (1902)
"That was a sort of a "slam" on this Association, and something of a "slam" on
the President, and I think we are going to have a little discussion, ..."
3. Auction Bridge Crimes: A Satirical Arraignment of Twenty Common Faults of by Jay Albert Gove (1917)
"He made a little slam on a bid of three—a little slam on a hand in which the
opponents' heart suit alone, it properly played, would have set the contract ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1909)
"(3) The flagman permitted the door to slam on petitioner's finger, when, by the
exercise of ordinary care, he could have prevented it. ..."
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