Slam, SLAM or SLAMS may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional elements
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S.L.A.M.
The '' G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero'' toyline was introduced by Hasbro in 1982, and lasted to 1994, producing well over 250 vehicles (i.e. in-universe are meant to move under their own power), and playsets (i.e. toys representing static bases of ...
(Strategic Long-Range Artillery Machine), a fictional weapon in the ''G.I. Joe'' universe
* SLAMS (Space-Land-Air Missile Shield), a fictional anti-ballistic missile system featured in ''
Tom Clancy's EndWar'' and briefly mentioned in other ''Tom Clancy's'' video games
Films
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''Slam'' (1998 film), an American film starring Saul Williams and Beau Sia
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''Slam'' (2016 film), an Italian film based on the novel of the same name by Nick Hornby
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''Slam'' (2018 film), an Australian feature directed by Partho Sen-Gupta
Literature
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''Slam'' (novel), a novel by Nick Hornby
* ''Slam!'', a novel by
Walter Dean Myers
Walter Dean Myers (born Walter Milton Myers; August 12, 1937 – July 1, 2014) was an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but was raised in Harlem, New York City ...
about a high school basketball star from Harlem
* ''Slam'', a novel by
Lewis Shiner
Lewis Shiner (born December 30, 1950, in Eugene, Oregon) is an American writer.
Shiner began his career as a science fiction writer, and then identified with cyberpunk. He later wrote more mainstream novels, albeit often with magical realism and ...
Music
Albums
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''Slam'' (Big Dipper album), 1990
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''Slam'' (Joe Lynn Turner album), 2001
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''Slam'' (soundtrack), from the 1998 film
* , a 1989 album by
Dan Reed Network
* ''Slam'', a 1978 album by
Suburban Studs
Songs
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"Slam" (Humanoid song), 1989
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"Slam" (Onyx song), 1993
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"Slam" (Pendulum song), 2005
* "Slam", a song by
Bow Wow
* "Slam", a song by Seaway from ''
Colour Blind''
* "Slam", a 2002 song by A-Teens from ''
Pop 'til You Drop!
''Pop 'til You Drop!'' is the third studio album by Swedish pop group A-Teens, released in 2002 exclusively in North America and Argentina. Recorded between 2001 and 2002 in Stockholm, Sweden, the album saw the group having more involvement in th ...
''
* "Slam", a 2009 song by Anna Arbeu from ''
Just a Pretty Face?''
Other uses in music
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Slam (DJs), an electronic music production and DJ duo from Glasgow
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Save Live Australian Music (or SLAM), a 2010 rally in Melbourne, Australia
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Slam death metal
Brutal death metal is a subgenre of death metal that privileges heaviness, speed and complex rhythms over other aspects, such as melody and timbres. The genre was pioneered in the early 1990s by Suffocation (band), Suffocation and other groups fro ...
(often referred to as simply "slam"), a style of death metal
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
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Slam (cards)
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, a contract in card games in which the player undertakes to win all tricks
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''Slam'' (magazine), a basketball publication
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SLAM! (radio station), a Dutch radio station based in Naarden
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Poetry slam
A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word, spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges.
Poetry slams began in Chicago in the 1980s, with the first slam competition designed to move poetry rec ...
, a competition in which poets of all ages perform spoken word poetry
* Slam! Sports, a section of ''
Canadian Online Explorer
Canoe.com is an English-language Canadian portal site and website network, and is a subsidiary of Postmedia Network. The phrase Canadian Online Explorer appears in the header; the name is also evidently a play on words on canoe (or ''canoë'' in ...
'' (i.e., Canoe.com)
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Slamdancing, a style of dance
* SLAM!, a short-lived block on Nickelodeon
Science and technology
Computing
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Simultaneous localization and mapping
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the computational problem of constructing or updating a map of an unknown environment while simultaneously keeping track of an Intelligent agent, agent's location within it. While this initially ap ...
(or SLAM), a navigation technique used by robots and autonomous vehicles
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SLAM project, a Microsoft research project
* Simulation Language for Analogue Modelling (or SLAM), a
simulation language
A computer simulation language is used to describe the operation of a simulation on a computer.Fritzson, Peter, and Vadim Engelson.Modelica—A unified object-oriented language for system modeling and simulation" European Conference on Object-Orie ...
, versions based on Fortran and GASP
Weapons
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Selectable Lightweight Attack Munition (or SLAM), a small United States multi-purpose landmine
* Shoulder-Launched Antiaircraft Missile (or SLAM), a competing design proposal rejected in favor of the
FIM-43 Redeye
The General Dynamics FIM-43 Redeye is a man-portable surface-to-air missile system. It uses passive infrared homing to track its target. Production began in 1962 andin anticipation of the Redeye II, which later became the FIM-92 Stingerended in t ...
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Standoff Land Attack Missile (or SLAM), an over-the-horizon, all-weather cruise missile developed in the 1990s
* Submarine Launched Airflight Missile (or SLAM), an experimental variant of the British
Blowpipe
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Supersonic Low Altitude Missile (or SLAM), a cancelled U.S. Air Force nuclear-powered cruise missile project of the 1950, nicknamed the flying crowbar
Other uses
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Signaling lymphocytic activation molecule (or SLAM), a family of genes
Sports
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Body slam
Professional wrestling throws are the application of professional wrestling techniques that involve lifting the opponent up and throwing or slamming them down. They are sometimes also called "power" maneuvers, as they are meant to emphasize a wrest ...
, any move in which a wrestler picks up and throws an opponent down to the ground limp back-first
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Chennai Slam, an Indian basketball team
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Grand slam (baseball)
In baseball, a grand slam is a home run hit with bases loaded, all three bases occupied by baserunners ("bases loaded"), thereby scoring four run (baseball), runs—the most possible in one play. According to ''The Dickson Baseball Dictionary'', ...
, often shortened into "slam"
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Grand Slam (golf)
In golf, winning all of the sport's Major championships (golf), major championships in the same calendar year constitutes the Grand Slam. The modern (professional) Grand Slam would mean winning The Open Championship, U.S. Open (golf), U.S. Open, ...
, winning all of golf's major championships in the same calendar year
Other uses
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SLAM (clothing), a manufacturer of clothing based in Italy
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Saint Louis Art Museum
The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) is an art museum located in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. With paintings, sculptures, cultural objects, and ancient masterpieces from around the world, its three-story building stands in Forest Park in ...
(or SLAM), in St. Louis, Missouri
* Service Level Agreement Monitoring (or SLAM), often used in the
National Health Service
The National Health Service (NHS) is the term for the publicly funded health care, publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (England), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care (Northern ...
to describe data received by commissioners from providers
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South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, also known as SLaM, is an NHS foundation trust based in London, England, which specialises in mental health. It comprises four psychiatric hospitals (Bethlem Royal Hospital, Lambeth Hospital and t ...
(or SLAM), a group of hospitals
* Abbreviation or nickname for
S.L.A. Marshall, brigadier general and military journalist and historian
See also
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Grand Slam (disambiguation)
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Slam dunk (disambiguation)
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