Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A sudden impact or blow. · The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object. · A slam dunk. · One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.
To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise. · 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 strike forcefully with some implement. · To strike against suddenly and heavily.
From Middle English *slammen (not recorded), apparently from a Scandinavian source ultimately from Old Norse slæma, slœma (“to slam, swing a weapon, strike an object out of reach”), related to Old Norse slamra, slambra (“to slam”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål slamre (“to slam”), Swedish slamra (“to pound, beat, make a clatter, rattle”), Norwegian Nynorsk slamra (“to sway, dangle”).
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