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Slam, SLAM or SLAMS may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Fictional elements
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Albums
[edit]- Slam (Big Dipper album), 1990
- Slam (Joe Lynn Turner album), 2001
- Slam (soundtrack), from the 1998 film
- Slam (Dan Reed Network album) , a 1989 album by Dan Reed Network
- Slam, a 1978 album by Suburban Studs
Songs
[edit]- "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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Computing
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Signaling lymphocytic activation molecule (or SLAM), a family of genes
Sports
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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