slamming

[ slam-ing ]

/ ˈslæm ɪŋ /

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noun Informal.

the switching of a customer's long-distance telephone company or other public utility without his or her authorization.

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Which of the following words means “to make a crackling sound; crackle”?

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Origin of slamming

1990–95; slam¹ + -ing¹

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People are on alert, but there’s no panic or slamming of brakes.
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Waking briefly a few times throughout the night, I heard sounds, voices, slamming doors.
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Det. 2: (slamming his hand on the table and yelling) You hung her!
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If the Texas senator runs for president, this is how the campaign begins—by slamming the man currently in the White House.
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Stanley then went on to praise Curry after slamming her, a technique she would later use in her Rhimes piece.
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Last weekend, the cattiest of Hollande's ministers went a step too far, slamming France's economic policy, and was finally ousted.
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Occasionally faint sounds came from the distance—the movements of cleaners at work, a raised voice, the slamming of a door.
Uncanny Tales|Various
The clatter of levers, the slamming of iron doors, continually reverberates through the corridors.
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Agatha, with this injunction, bounced out of the room, slamming-to the door so as to make Miss Judith start from her seat.
The Children of the New Forest|Captain Marryat
The big figure ran on and disappeared into the small house, the door slamming shut behind it.
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"No," he answered laconically, slamming down the lid of the tea-basket.
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