Slam vs. Rap — What's the Difference?

To shut with force and loud noise

Strike (a hard surface) with a series of rapid audible blows, especially in order to attract attention

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

Talk or chat in an easy and familiar manner

To hit or strike with great force.

Perform rap music

(Slang) To criticize harshly; censure forcefully.

A quick, sharp knock or blow

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

A type of popular music of US black origin in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically over an instrumental backing

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

A lengthy or impromptu conversation

To hit something with force; crash

A criminal charge, especially of a specified kind

A forceful impact that makes a loud noise.

A person's reputation, typically a bad one

A noise so produced.

The smallest amount (used for emphasis)

An act of shutting forcefully and loudly

To hit sharply and swiftly; strike

(Slang) A harsh or devastating criticism.

To utter sharply

A poetry slam.

To criticize or blame.

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 strike a quick light blow

A contract to make a slam.

(Slang) To discuss something freely and at length.

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

To perform rap music.

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

To perform as rap music

(ambitransitive) To strike forcefully with some implement.

A quick light blow or knock.

(intransitive) To strike against suddenly and heavily.

A knocking or tapping sound.

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

A reprimand.

To defeat or overcome in a match.

A sentence to serve time in prison.

To speak badly of; to criticize forcefully.

(Slang) A negative quality or characteristic associated with a person or an object.

To compete in a poetry slam.

The least bit

(basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.

(Slang) A talk, conversation, or discussion.

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

A form of popular music developed especially in African American urban communities and characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a strong rhythmic accompaniment.

(transitive) To drink off, to drink quickly.

A composition or performance of such music.

To inject intravenously; shoot up.

(countable) A sharp blow with something hard.

To perform coitus upon forcefully; to rail.

(slang) Blame for something.

To occupy and busy with a high workload.

(informal) A casual talk.

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

Rap music.

To make a slam bid.

A song, verse, or instance of singing in the style of rap music.

(countable) A sudden impact or blow.

An appraisal.

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

A positive appraisal; a recommendation.

A slam dunk.

A lea or skein of yarn that forms the standard length taken from the reel, 80 yards of worsted or 120 yards of silk or cotton.

One of the competitions of the yearly Grand Slam events.

(historical) Any of the tokens that passed current for a halfpenny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

An insult.

A whit; a jot.

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

Acronym of record of arrest and prosecution

A poetry slam.

A charge, whether or not it results in a conviction.

A slambook.

(intransitive) To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock.

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

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

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

(metalworking) To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

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.

To utter quickly and sharply.

Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.

(ambitransitive) To speak (lyrics) in the style of rap music.

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

To talk casually; to engage in conversation.

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

(transitive) To seize and carry off.

(obsolete) A shambling fellow.

(transitive) To transport out of oneself; to affect with rapture.

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

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

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

A quick, smart blow; a knock.

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

A popular name for any of the tokens that passed current for a half-penny in Ireland in the early part of the eighteenth century; any coin of trifling value.

To strike down; to slaughter.

Conversation; also, rapping.

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

A type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments; rap music.

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.

To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

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

To strike with a quick blow; to knock on.

The shock and noise produced in slamming.

To free (a pattern) in a mold by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal.

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).

To snatch away; to seize and hurry off.

The refuse of alum works.

To hasten.

Winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge

To seize and bear away, as the mind or thoughts; to transport out of one's self; to affect with ecstasy or rapture; as, rapt into admiration.

The noise made by the forcefaul impact of two objects

To exchange; to truck.

A forceful impact that makes a loud noise

To engage in a discussion, converse.

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

To perform a type of rhythmic talking, often with accompanying rhythm instruments. It is considered by some as a type of music; see rap music.

Close violently;

A reproach for some lapse or misdeed;

Strike violently;

A gentle blow

Dance the slam dance

The sound made by a gentle blow

Throw violently;

Voluble conversation

Genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged

The act of hitting vigorously;

Strike sharply;

Make light, repeated taps on a surface;

Perform rap music

Talk volubly