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Definition: Slammer |
SlammerNoun1. A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "slammer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | Swiss German (süffel). (references) |
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Synonyms: SlammerSynonyms: clink (n), gaol (n), jail (n), jailhouse (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Slammer |
| Non-English Usage: "Slammer" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (clatter, rattle). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Abie the agent. This is a subpoena - this "Spike" Slammer is suing you for the $10,000 reward money. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Slammer" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.89% of the time. "Slammer" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.89% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (proper) | 11.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "slammer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | السجن (prison). (various references) | |
French | taule, tôle, prison. (various references) | |
German | knast (can, clink, hoosegow, jug, Nick, pen), bau (building, burrow, construction, den, earth, erection, fabric, guardhouse, hole, lair, location, Lodge, pen, sett, structure, workings). (various references) | |
Italian | gattabuia (calaboose, clink, quod). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ammerslay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | que bate com violência, pessoa que censura severamente. (various references) | |
Russian | тюрьма (bastille, bridewell, calaboose, gaol, jail, jug, lockup, pit, pound, prison, prison house, quod, stone-jug). (various references) | |
Spanish | trena (choky), talego (duffle bag, gaol, jail, lump, poke). (various references) | |
Swedish | kåken (pen). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | в'язниця (bandhouse, cage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, dump, gaol, jail, limbo, penitentiary, pound, prison, quod, ward). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "slammer": slammers. (additional references) | |
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"Slammer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: clammer, Sammar, sammler, slame, slumer, spamer, spammer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "slammer" (pronounced sla"mer) |
| 4 | -l a" m er | clamor, glamor, glamour. |
| 3 | -a" m er | enamor, crammer, dammer, grammar, hammer, jammer, rammer, stammer. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-m-m-r-s" | |
-1 letter: lemmas, realms. | |
-2 letters: almes, arles, earls, lamer, lames, lares, laser, lears, lemma, males, malms, mares, marls, marse, maser, meals, merls, rales, realm, reals, reams, seral, smarm, smear. | |
-3 letters: ales, alme, alms, ares, arms, arse, earl, ears, elms, eras, lame, lams, lars, lase, lear, leas, maes, male, malm, mare, marl, mars, meal, mels, mems. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-m-m-r-s" | |
+1 letter: almemars, clammers, slammers, trammels. | |
+2 letters: embalmers, imbalmers, maelstrom, mealworms, memorials. | |
+3 letters: filmmakers, hammerless, maelstroms, marmalades, melodramas, mesodermal, metalmarks, millstream, oriflammes, sarcolemma, semiformal. | |
+4 letters: commercials, hammerlocks, immortalise, imperialism, materialism, maternalism, memorialise, memorialist, millstreams, neurilemmas, palmerworms, sarcolemmal, sarcolemmas, summersault, symmetrical. | |
+5 letters: aeroembolism, asymmetrical, bicameralism, flimflammers, immeasurable, immeasurably, immensurable, immoralities, immortalised, immortalises, immortalizes, imperialisms, lammergeiers, lammergeyers, materialisms, maternalisms, membranously, memorialised, memorialises, memorialists, memorializes, mercantilism, mesmerically, milliamperes, recommittals, sledgehammer, summarizable, summersaults. | |
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