slam vs spur

slam

noun
  • A slam dunk. 

  • 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 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. 

verb
  • 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 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. 

spur

noun
  • A jab given with the spurs. 

  • A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed. 

  • Ergotized rye or other grain. 

  • A tern. 

  • A branch of a vein. 

  • A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side. 

  • Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city. 

  • Roots, tree roots. 

  • A very short branch line of a railway line. 

  • The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor. 

  • A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage. 

  • A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall. 

  • A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles. 

  • A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight. 

  • Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse. 

  • A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber. 

  • An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster. 

  • A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut. 

  • A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road. 

  • The short wooden buttress of a post. 

  • A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal. 

  • A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves. 

verb
  • To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object 

  • To press forward; to travel in great haste. 

  • To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig. 

  • To form a spur (senses 17-18 of the noun) 

  • To put spurs on. 

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