slamming

[slam-ing]

noun

Informal.

1. the switching of a customer's telephone or other public utility to another service provider without the customer's authorization.

Word History and Origins

Origin of slamming¹

1990–95; slam ¹ + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

In December 2023, a female officer was put under internal investigation after slamming into and killing a 25-year-old man with her police cruiser.

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The author took to social media Monday to share a lengthy post slamming Emma Watson, who on a podcast recently addressed her own feelings about their rift.

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I rolled my eyes and walked out of the room before things escalated, which usually consisted of me slamming doors to get my nonverbal point across.

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In a livestream of the event, Jackson was seen running into the ring at KnokXPro Wrestling Academy and slamming wrestler Stuart Smith into the mat.

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Paxton condemned the ruling as a constitutional crisis, slamming the court’s “activist judges,” along with the all-GOP Texas Supreme Court for declining to step in.

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