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Slam

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Slam, SLAM or SLAMS may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional elements

  • S.L.A.M. (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

  • Slam (1998 film), a 1998 film starring Saul Williams and Beau Sia
  • Slam (2018 film), an Australian feature directed by Partho Sen-Gupta

Literature

  • Slam (novel), a novel by Nick Hornby
  • Slam!, a novel by Walter Dean Myers about a high school basketball star from Harlem
  • Slam, a novel by Lewis Shiner

Music

Albums

  • Slam (Big Dipper album), 1990
  • Slam (Joe Lynn Turner album), 2001
  • Slam (soundtrack), from the 1998 film
  • Slam, a 1989 album by Dan Reed Network
  • Slam, a 1978 album by Suburban Studs

Songs

  • "Slam" (Humanoid song), 1989
  • "Slam" (Onyx song), 1993
  • "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!

Other uses in music

  • Slam (DJs), an electronic music production and DJ duo from Glasgow
  • Save Live Australian Music (or SLAM), a 2010 rally in Melbourne, Australia
  • Slam death metal (often referred to as simply "slam"), a style of death metal

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Slam (cards), a contract in card games in which the player undertakes to win all tricks
  • Slam (magazine), a basketball publication
  • SLAM! (radio station), a Dutch radio station based in Naarden
  • Poetry slam, a competition in which poets of all ages perform spoken word poetry
  • Slam! Sports, a section of Canadian Online Explorer (i.e., Canoe.com)
  • Slamdancing, a style of dance

Science and technology

Computing

Weapons

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

  • Signaling lymphocytic activation molecule (or SLAM), a family of genes

Sports

  • Body slam, any move in which a wrestler picks up and throws an opponent down to the ground limp back-firs
  • Chennai Slam, an Indian basketball team
  • Grand slam (baseball), often shortened into "slam"

Other uses

  • SLAM (clothing), a manufacturer of clothing based in Italy
  • Saint Louis Art Museum (or SLAM), in St. Louis, Missouri
  • Service Level Agreement Monitoring (or SLAM), often used in the National Health Service to describe data received by commissioners from providers
  • South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (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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