Slam as a word has several possible meanings :

• short term for poetry slam
• short term for slam dunk in basketball
• a grappling move in wrestling, such as a suplex, wherein a participant lifts and throws his opponent to the mat
• bidding and winning all (or all but one) trick in the card game bridge - known as Grand Slam and Small (or 'Little') Slam respectively.
• the card game spit, also known as slam

Slam as a name may refer to:

• SLAM, a hip hop act hailing from Alberta, Canada. http://www.myspace.com/slamhiphop
• SLAM Magazine, a basketball publication
• Slam (film), a 1998 film
• Slam (band), a techno and house music act
• the sports section of a major Canadian Online Portal, http://slam.canoe.ca which is part of Canadian Online Explorer
• Slam, the only album by Birmingham punk quartet Suburban Studs
• the SLAM Project, a Microsoft Research project intended to verify some software properties using model checking techniques
• Slam (book), a novel by Walter Dean Myers about a high school basketball star from Harlem
• Slam (Shiner novel), a novel by Lewis Shiner
• Slam, a novel by Nick Hornby
• Slam (song), a 1993 single by rap group Onyx from their album Bacdafucup

SLAM as an acronym has several possible meanings:

• Signaling Lymphocytic Activation Molecule, a family of cell receptors that can be used to identify Hematopoietic Stem Cells
• Simultaneous localization and mapping, a concept in robotic and autonomous navigation
• South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, a group of hospitals
• the Supersonic Low Altitude Missile, designed and developed at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory between 1955 and 1964
• the U.S. Navy's Standoff Land Attack Missile, a modern cruise missile system
• the Selectable Light-weight Attack Munition, an explosive charge that is used by U.S. Special Forces
• Students Living a Mission, a mission organization for teens
• Society's League Against Molestation, an organization against child abuse
• Shareholder Limited Authorized Margin, an economical concept aiming at the reduction of shareholders' profits
• Simulation Language for Analogue Modelling (SLAM), a simulation language based on Fortran designed for modeling continuous systems
• Simulation Language for Alternative Modeling (SLAM), a simulation language based on GASP designed for both discrete and continuous systems.
• SubLight Acceleration Motor, a fictional propulsion device in the computer game TIE Fighter

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