Bang vs. Slam — What's the Difference?

A sudden loud noise, as of an explosion.

To shut with force and loud noise

A sudden loud blow or bump.

To put, throw, or otherwise forcefully move so as to produce a loud noise

(Informal) A sudden burst of action

To hit or strike with great force.

(Slang) A sense of excitement; a thrill

(Slang) To criticize harshly; censure forcefully.

Often bangs A fringe of hair that hangs over the forehead, cut in any of various styles.

(Slang) To drink quickly (a beverage, especially an alcoholic one). Often used with back or down.

Variant of bhang.

To close or swing into place with force so as to produce a loud noise.

To strike heavily and often repeatedly; bump.

To hit something with force; crash

To close suddenly and loudly; slam.

A forceful impact that makes a loud noise.

To handle noisily or violently

A noise so produced.

(Informal) To turn in (a specific direction or along a course), especially suddenly

An act of shutting forcefully and loudly

Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with.

(Slang) A harsh or devastating criticism.

To make a sudden loud, explosive noise.

A poetry slam.

To crash noisily against or into something

The winning of all the tricks or all but one during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games.

To cut (hair) to form bangs.

A contract to make a slam.

Exactly; precisely

To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise.

Suddenly; abruptly

To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.)

Used to indicate the sound of an explosion or collision.

(ambitransitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.

A sudden percussive noise.

(intransitive) To strike against suddenly and heavily.

A strike upon an object causing such a noise.

 To strike and take the life of or at least incapacitate for some time.

An explosion.

To defeat or overcome in a match.

Syn of bangs: hair hanging over the forehead, especially a hairstyle with such hair cut straight across.

To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.

The symbol !, known as an exclamation point.

To compete in a poetry slam.

(mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!

(basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.

An act of sexual intercourse.

To move a customer from one service provider to another without their consent.

An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.

(transitive) To drink off, to drink quickly.

An explosive product.

To inject intravenously; shoot up.

(slang) An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug).

To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.

An abrupt left turn.

To occupy and busy with a high workload.

Strong smell (of)

To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.

(slang) A thrill.

To make a slam bid.

(intransitive) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.

(countable) A sudden impact or blow.

(ambitransitive) To hit hard.

(countable) The shock and noise produced by violently closing a door or other object.

To engage in sexual intercourse.

A slam dunk.

(with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.

One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.

(transitive) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).

An insult.

To inject intravenously.

The yellow iron silicate produced in alum works as a waste product.

To depress the prices in (a market).

A poetry slam.

To excel or surpass.

A slambook.

Right, directly.

A subgenre of death metal with elements of hardcore punk focusing on midtempo rhythms, breakdowns and palm-muted riffs

Precisely.

A type of card game, also called ruff and honours.

With a sudden impact.

A card game, played all at once without separate turns, in which players attempt to get rid of their cards as quickly as possible according to certain rules.

A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc.

Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.

To beat, as with a club or cudgel; to treat with violence; to handle roughly.

A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.

To beat or thump, or to cause (something) to hit or strike against another object, in such a way as to make a loud noise; as, to bang a drum or a piano; to bang a door (against the doorpost or casing) in shutting it.

Winning all (or all but one) of the available, major or specified events in a given year or sports season.

To have sexual intercourse with; to fuck; - usually used with the male as a subject. Considered vulgar or obscene.

(obsolete) A shambling fellow.

To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.

To shut with force and a loud noise; to bang; as, he slammed the door.

To have sexual intercourse; to fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene.

To put in or on some place with force and loud noise; - usually with down; as, to slam a trunk down on the pavement.

To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair).

To strike with some implement with force; hence, to beat or cuff.

A blow as with a club; a heavy blow.

To strike down; to slaughter.

The loud sound produced by a sudden concussion or explosion.

To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.

A surge of pleasure; a thrill; - usually used in the phrase get a bang out of; as, I always get a bang out of watching an ice skater do a quadruple jump.

To come or swing against something, or to shut, with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise; as, a door or shutter slams.

An exclamation point; - used in verbal descriptions of text, in printing and in computer technology; as, his email address is tom bang stanford dot edu (i.e. tom!stanford.edu).

The act of one who, or that which, slams.

An instance of sexual intercourse; a fuck. Considered vulgar and obscene.

The shock and noise produced in slamming.

The short, front hair combed down over the forehead, esp. when cut squarely across; a false front of hair similarly worn; - usually used in the plural; as, her bangs came down almost to her eyes.

Winning all the tricks of a deal (called, in bridge, grand slam, the winning of all but one of the thirteen tricks being called a little slam or small slam).

See Bhang.

The refuse of alum works.

A vigorous blow;

Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge

A sudden very loud noise

The noise made by the forcefaul impact of two objects

A fringe of banged hair (cut short squarely across the forehead)

A forceful impact that makes a loud noise

The swift release of a store of affective force;

An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect;

A conspicuous success;

Close violently;

Strike violently;

Strike violently;

To produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound;

Dance the slam dance

Close violently;

Throw violently;

Move noisily;

Have sexual intercourse with;

Leap, jerk, bang;

Directly;