Slam

Slam, SLAM or SLAMS may refer to:

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

Albums

 * 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

 * "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

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