slam vs slur

slam

verb
  • To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully. 

  • 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 strike against suddenly and heavily. 

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

  • 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. 

slur

verb
  • To insult or slight. 

  • To run together; to articulate poorly. 

  • To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly. 

  • To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace. 

  • To cover over; to disguise; to conceal; to pass over lightly or with little notice. 

  • To cheat, as by sliding a die; to trick. 

noun
  • In knitting machines, a device for depressing the sinkers successively by passing over them. 

  • An insinuation or innuendo. 

  • An act of running one's words together; poor verbal articulation. 

  • A mark, stain, or smear; (by extension) a slight occasion of reproach. 

  • A disparaging insult or slight, particularly one used to denigrate a specific group. 

  • A set of notes that are played legato, without separate articulation. 

  • The symbol indicating a legato passage, written as an arc over the slurred notes (not to be confused with a tie). 

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