crack vs slam

crack

verb
  • To strike forcefully. 

  • To change rapidly in register. 

  • To become debilitated by psychological pressure. 

  • To form cracks. 

  • To make a cracking sound. 

  • To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress. 

  • To make a crack or cracks in. 

  • To make a sharply humorous comment. 

  • To open slightly. 

  • To overcome a security system or component. 

  • To break down (a complex molecule), especially with the application of heat: to pyrolyse. 

  • To break apart under force, stress, or pressure. 

  • To alternate between high and low register in the process of eventually lowering. 

  • To cause to yield under interrogation or other pressure. 

  • To circumvent software restrictions such as regional coding or time limits. 

  • To tell (a joke). 

  • To break down or yield, especially under interrogation or torture. 

  • To solve a difficult problem. 

  • To cause to make a sharp sound. 

  • To realize that one is transgender. 

  • To barely reach, attain to (a measurement, extent). 

  • To open a canned beverage, or any packaged drink or food. 

adj
  • Highly trained and competent. 

  • Excellent, first-rate, superior, top-notch. 

noun
  • An attempt at something. 

  • A sharp, resounding blow. 

  • The tone of voice when changed at puberty. 

  • A program or procedure designed to circumvent restrictions or usage limits on software. 

  • Vagina. 

  • The space between the buttocks. 

  • A narrow opening. 

  • Any sharp sound. 

  • A thin and usually jagged space opened in a previously solid material. 

  • A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack. 

  • a meaningful chat. 

  • Something good-tasting or habit-forming. 

  • Extremely silly, absurd or off-the-wall ideas or prose. 

  • Conviviality; fun; good conversation, chat, gossip, or humorous storytelling; good company. 

  • The sharp sound made when solid material breaks. 

  • Business; events; news. 

  • Crack cocaine, a potent, relatively cheap, addictive variety of cocaine; often a rock, usually smoked through a crack-pipe. 

slam

verb
  • To strike against suddenly and heavily. 

  • To defeat or overcome in a match. 

  • To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent. 

  • To compete in a poetry slam. 

  • To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk. 

  • To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand. 

  • To make a slam bid. 

  • To occupy and busy with a high workload. 

  • To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise. 

  • To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully. 

  • To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time. 

  • To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail. 

  • To inject intravenously; shoot up. 

  • To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.) 

  • To drink off, to drink quickly. 

  • To strike forcefully with some implement. 

noun
  • An insult. 

  • Losing or winning all the tricks in a game. 

  • A slambook. 

  • The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object. 

  • Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season. 

  • A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs 

  • A slam dunk. 

  • 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. 

  • A sudden impact or blow. 

  • A poetry slam. 

  • A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump. 

  • The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product. 

  • One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events. 

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