slam piece
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Noun
[edit]slam piece (plural slam pieces)
- (informal) A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a highly unfavorable manner.
- 1991 March 11, Mayer Mitchell, Thomas A. Dine, “AIPAC's Action Alert”, in The Washington Post:
- Rowland Evans and Robert Novak have produced another "slam piece" about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee […]
- (slang) A sexual partner to whom one has no particular emotional attachment.
- 2008 February 11, Arianne Cohen, “The Multi-Orgasmic Woman Test-driving a Potential New Boyfriend”, in New York Magazine:
- Discover gay roommate has just stumbled home from a night with his “slam piece.”
- 2009 February 13, Steve Austin, “Lustful advice for the loveless”, in Cavalier Daily:
- Of course, there’s also the holy Facebook trinity — wall posts, messages (it makes him feel like you’re keeping a big secret, which sends the right message that you’re not above being the secret slam piece on the side) and the coup de grace — pokes (which let him know you’re not a prude and happy to make things physical).
- 2011, Keith Merryman, David A. Newman, Will Gluck, Friends with Benefits:
- Lorna: So, my daughter is just your slam piece?
- 2012 April 19, Kelsey Castanon, “S**t nobody says at K-state: from parking praise to spring fever”, in Kansas State Collegian, page 4:
- Her straightforward messages of "meat is murder" and "every frat guy has a slam piece" really went over well with the student body.
Synonyms
[edit]- (highly unfavorable treatment): hatchet job.
- (casual sexual partner): see also Thesaurus:casual sexual partner.