Insult vs. Slam — What's the Difference?

An insult is an expression or statement (or sometimes behavior) which is disrespectful or scornful. Insults may be intentional or accidental.

To shut with force and loud noise

To treat with gross insensitivity, insolence, or contemptuous rudeness.

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

To affront or demean

To hit or strike with great force.

(Obsolete) To make an attack on.

(Slang) To criticize harshly; censure forcefully.

To behave arrogantly.

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

An insulting remark or act.

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

(Medicine) A bodily injury, irritation, or trauma.

To hit something with force; crash

Something that causes injury, irritation, or trauma

A forceful impact that makes a loud noise.

(transitive) To be insensitive, insolent, or rude to (somebody); to affront or demean (someone).

A noise so produced.

To assail, assault, or attack; to carry out an assault, attack, or onset without preparation.

An act of shutting forcefully and loudly

To behave in an obnoxious and superior manner (against or over someone).

(Slang) A harsh or devastating criticism.

To leap or trample upon.

A poetry slam.

(uncountable) Action or form of speech deliberately intended to be rude; (countable) a particular act or statement having this effect.

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

(countable) Something that causes offence (for example, by being of an unacceptable quality).

A contract to make a slam.

Something causing disease or injury to the body or bodily processes; the injury so caused.

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

An assault or attack; an assault, attack, or onset carried out without preparation.

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

An act of leaping upon.

(ambitransitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.

The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

(intransitive) To strike against suddenly and heavily.

Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; a deprecatory remark; an affront; an indignity.

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

An injury to an organism; trauma; as, to produce an experimental insult to investigate healing processes.

To defeat or overcome in a match.

To leap or trample upon; to make a sudden onset upon.

To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.

To treat with abuse, insolence, indignity, or contempt, by word or action; to abuse; as, to call a man a coward or a liar, or to sneer at him, is to insult him.

To compete in a poetry slam.

To leap or jump.

(basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.

To behave with insolence; to exult.

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

A rude expression intended to offend or hurt;

(transitive) To drink off, to drink quickly.

A deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront;

To inject intravenously; shoot up.

Treat, mention, or speak to rudely;

To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.

To occupy and busy with a high workload.

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

To make a slam bid.

(countable) A sudden impact or blow.

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

A slam dunk.

One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.

An insult.

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

A poetry slam.

A slambook.

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

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

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.

Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.

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

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

(obsolete) A shambling fellow.

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

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

To strike down; to slaughter.

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

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.

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

The shock and noise produced in slamming.

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).

The refuse of alum works.

Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge

The noise made by the forcefaul impact of two objects

A forceful impact that makes a loud noise

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

Close violently;

Strike violently;

Dance the slam dance

Throw violently;