Slam, SLAM or SLAMS may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

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 video games
  • Slam Tasmanian, cartoon character in the American animated series Loonatics Unleashed

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

Music

Albums

  • Slam (Big Dipper album), 1990
  • Slam (Joe Lynn Turner album), 2001
  • Slam (soundtrack), from the 1998 film
  • , 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 music

  • Slam (DJs), an electronic music production and DJ duo from Glasgow
  • Save Live Australian Music, a 2010 rally in Melbourne, Australia
  • Slam death metal or "slam", a style of death metal

Other 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 the website Canadian Online Explorer
  • Slamdancing, a style of dance

Science and technology

Computing

  • Simultaneous localization and mapping, a navigation technique used by robots and autonomous vehicles
  • SLAM project, a Microsoft research project
  • Simulation Language for Analogue Modelling, a simulation language, versions based on Fortran and GASP
  • Spectre based on Linear Address Masking (SLAM), a variant of Spectre-BHI

Weapons

  • Selectable Lightweight Attack Munition, a small United States multi-purpose landmine
  • Shoulder-Launched Antiaircraft Missile, a competing design proposal rejected in favor of the FIM-43 Redeye
  • Standoff Land Attack Missile, a 1990s over-the-horizon, all-weather cruise missile
  • Submarine Launched Airflight Missile, an experimental variant of the British Blowpipe
  • Supersonic Low Altitude Missile, a cancelled 1950s U.S. Air Force nuclear-powered cruise missile project

Other science

  • Signaling lymphocytic activation molecule, a family of genes

Sports

  • Body slam, in wrestling
  • Chennai Slam, an Indian basketball team
  • Grand slam (baseball) or slam,

Other uses

  • SLAM (clothing), a manufacturer of clothing based in Italy
  • Saint Louis Art Museum, in St. Louis, Missouri, US
  • South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, a group of hospitals
  • S. L. A. Marshall, brigadier general and military journalist and historian

See also

  • Grand Slam (disambiguation)
  • Slam dunk (disambiguation)