slammer
(ˈslæmə(r))
[f. slam v.1]
1. A violent gust (of wind).
| 1891 Field 7 Mar. 344/4 A strong westerly wind..came off the Barn Elm grounds in regular slammers at times. |
2. One who slams (doors, etc.).
| 1892 Chamb. Jrnl. 11 June 372/1 He is a quiet neighbour—no slammer or tramper. |
3. Prison, gaol. Usu. with the: occas. the slammers. Cf. slam n.1 4. slang (orig. U.S.).
| 1952 G. Mandel Flee Angry Strangers 358 I'm hip what you was doin wit Ange while I was in the slammer. 1961 Rigney & Smith Real Bohemia p. xvii, Slammer, jail. 1970 E. Bullins Theme is Blackness (1973) 177 I'm into a heavy petty criminal thing, man. The Man is always ready to vamp on you and take you off 'round here or put you in the slammers. 1975 B. Garfield Death Sentence (1976) v. 31 Less than one per cent of Chicago's crimes are solved, in the sense that some joker gets tried and convicted and sent to the slammer. 1977 D. Bagley Enemy xv. 131 This one's not for the slammer. He'll go to Broadmoor for sure. |
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Add: 4. = slam dancer s.v. *slam n.1 5.
| 1983 People 28 Mar. 96/2 While the slammers tend to be teenage leather boys, the audience is more mixed, with a fair number of suburban kids represented. 1990 D. Gaines Teenage Wasteland viii. 200 The audience was half headbanger and half slammer. 1992 Option July–Aug. 31/4 The boorish Stuart Maconie of New Musical Express responded more strongly to slammers and stagedivers. |