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Slammer vs Hammer - What's the difference?

slammer | hammer |

As nouns the difference between slammer and hammer

is that slammer is one who, or that which, slams while hammer is a tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.

As a verb hammer is

to strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.

slammer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, slams.
  • * 1989 , Jane Howard, Margaret Mead: A Life (page 27)
    • Margaret was also, by her own admission, a determined slammer of doors.
  • Jail, prison.
  • * 1971 , " Better Than Prison," Time , 7 Jun.,
    • A man being sentenced for starving some horses chose 24 hours in the slammer with no food rather than seven days with the regular amenities.
  • A tequila cocktail.
  • One who takes part in slam-dance.
  • In the game of (Pogs), the heavier piece used to strike the stack of counters.

    • Derived terms

    * Alabama slammer

    hammer

    English

    (wikipedia hammer)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tool with a heavy head and a handle used for pounding.
  • A moving part of a firearm that strikes the firing pin to discharge a gun.
  • (anatomy) The malleus of the ear.
  • (music) In a piano or dulcimer, a piece of wood covered in felt that strikes the string.
  • (sports) A device made of a heavy steel ball attached to a length of wire, and used for throwing.
  • (curling) The last rock in an end.
  • (Ultimate Frisbee) A frisbee throwing style in which the disc is held upside-down with a forehand grip and thrown above the head.
  • Part of a clock that strikes upon a bell to indicate the hour.
  • One who, or that which, smites or shatters.
    • St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
  • * J. H. Newman
    • He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had been the massive iron hammers of the whole earth.

    Derived terms

    * ball peen hammer * claw hammer * cross peen hammer * hammer and sickle * hammerhead * hammer toe * sledgehammer * straight peen hammer * war hammer * Warrington hammer

    See also

    * mallet

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To strike repeatedly with a hammer, some other implement, the fist, etc.
  • To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
  • * Dryden
    • hammered money
  • (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.
  • (sports) To hit particularly hard.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Marc Vesty , title=Stoke 0 - 2 Fulham , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd. }}
  • To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.
    • I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown.
  • (figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly
    • We hammered them 5-0!

    Derived terms

    * (adjective) * hammerer * (verb)

    See also

    * hammer out