slammed

English

Verb

slammed

1. simple past and past participle of slam
   • 2020 July 1, Mike Dowsett, CHERNOBYLITE: A fast-paced kidnap action thriller, DowCorp Press, →ISBN:

     He was only a little guy and he got absolutely slammed when I burst through the door like a human battering ram. I sent him flying down the hall, then he continued sliding on his back, already unconscious. 'Knock, knock,' I said […]

   • 2021 November 1, Russell Wild, Exchange-Traded Funds For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 334:

     But those who were slammed, truly slammed, were those who had more on the stock side of their portfolios than they should have. It happens, and it happens especially after bull markets, as investors saw in the several years prior […]

Adjective

slammed (comparative more slammed, superlative most slammed)

1. Very busied with work.
   • 2004 December 2, Ty Wenzel, Behind Bars: The Straight-Up Tales of a Big-City Bartender, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 12:

     I was just too slammed to intervene. By drink number five he was snapping his fingers to get my attention and his tips were getting smaller and smaller. He was becoming my worst enemy and he could sense it.

   • 2009, Kurt Johnston, Mark Oestreicher, My School, Zondervan, →ISBN:

     Or, worse yet, you've been so slammed with working on a massive science project about helium that you haven't stayed caught up in any of your other classes.

   • 2017, Nicole Lapin, Boss Bitch: A Simple 12-Step Plan to Take Charge of Your Career, Currency, →ISBN, page 99:

     It's because you are fabulous, of course, but also because if they are so slammed that they can't even make time for a face-to-face interview, trust me, they want to check the box that this position is filled […]

   • 2018 February 1, Monika dos Santos, Jean-Francois Pelletier, The Social Constructions and Experiences of Madness, BRILL, →ISBN, page 34:

     She justifies the systemic response by constructing demand and positioning herself as 'absolutely slammed' in a 'work load intensive environment.' Una acknowledges consumer disappointment: 'you know that's not what they are there for' […]

   • 2020, Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Noir, Akashic Books, →ISBN:

     “We've been jammed with so much, trying to get our TV show back on the air,” Buck apologized. “I've just been so slammed with so many things.” I said it was no problem. The sun streaked past my passenger window.

   • 2020 February 26, Suesan Bentley, My Father, Taken, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

     “I have several clients, and with a buyer's market, I'm very slammed.” “That's okay. I understand.” “Well, I was going to suggest something. Seeing how I am showing houses all over, when in the area and free, I can stop by […]”

2. Drunk.
   • 2012 November 12, Donald West J, Male Prostitution, Routledge, →ISBN, page 123:

     Q. You get very slammed? A. Yes. But if I just go out for social drinks, a couple of pints. A. And how often do you go out and get really slammed? Q. About once a fortnight. But I get stoned [i.e. on cannabis] all the time. It's better.

   • 2015 January 20, Susan Adrian, Tunnel Vision: A Novel, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 17:

     By the time it was my turn, I was more slammed than I had been in a very long time, maybe ever. Especially around that many people. My eyelids felt heavy. […] And everybody as drunk as me. They wouldn't even remember.

   • 2021 July 16, Emma Lea, Royal Refinement: A Sweet Royal Romance, Emma Lea:

     I expected them to get absolutely slammed, especially with all the free booze on offer, but they drank moderately and spent most of the time talking or dancing. They didn't interact with the other patrons, […]

3. Packed, crowded, (of a venue) full of would-be customers.
   • 2012 January 5, Doc Hendley, Wine to Water: How One Man Saved Himself While Trying to Save the World, Penguin, →ISBN:

     Then, one evening in the spring of 2002, the bar was absolutely slammed. It was a Tuesday, ten-cent-hot-wings night, and the local Pagan's Saints gang had the 19th Hole overflowing with leathers, mullets, and ponytails.

   • 2013, Jane Porter, The Good Wife, Berkley, →ISBN, page 302:

     Lauren was at work the next morning, absolutely slammed, the waiting area filled with people and a crowd outside all waiting to get in because it was Father's Day and everyone wanted to treat their dad. Their wait time was […]

   • 2015 November 17, Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 33:

     My flight landed in Vegas at around five. Not surprisingly the Las Vegas airport was even more slammed than Denver's.

   • 2016 September 8, George S. Fleetwood, Put Another Pin in the Map: The Interesting Places I’ve Seen and the Food I’ve Eaten, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:

     The tavern was absolutely slammed, but we finally found a crease at the bar where we could sidle up to and order a pint. The redhaired Irish lass tending bar poured us a nice glass of stout and we began to check out the clientele.

   • 2021 August 30, Millie King, Suckled Brats 12-Pack : Books 1 to 12, Taboo Ink:

     It was a Sunday and we'd been absolutely slammed. I think there was some kind of concert in the town-centre and the footfall absolutely killed us. I hadn't planned for it at all. I'd sent the staff home early when everything turned […]