Slam Explained

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), an American film starring Saul Williams and Beau Sia
• Slam (2016 film), an Italian film based on the novel of the same name by Nick Hornby
• 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
• , 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!
• "Slam", a 2009 song by Anna Arbeu from Just a Pretty Face?

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

• Simultaneous localization and mapping (or SLAM), a navigation technique used by robots and autonomous vehicles
• SLAM project, a Microsoft research project
• Simulation Language for Analogue Modelling (or SLAM), a simulation language, versions based on Fortran and GASP

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-first
• 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

• Grand Slam (disambiguation)
• Slam dunk (disambiguation)