subs. (old).—1. A trick (GROSE).
2. (cards’).—At whist a game lost without scoring: also as verb. = to take every trick: cf. SKUNK (B. E. and GROSE).
[?]. Loyal Songs.
| There is none could ever beat the rump | |
| Until a noble General came, | |
| And gave the cheaters a clean SLAM. |
3. (old).—A sloven: also SLAMKIN (GROSE: ‘One whose clothes seem hung on with a pitchfork’); and (4) any ill-made, awkward, ungainly wretch.
1697. VANBRUGH, The Relapse, v. 6. Hoyd. I don’t like my lord’s shapes, nurse. Nurse. Why in good truly, as a body may say, he is but a SLAM.
Verb. (common).—1. To brag; spec. (military) to feign drunkenness and boast of many drinks: cf. SLUM.
2. (strollers’).—To PATTER (q.v.); to talk in the way of trade.
1884. W. E. HENLEY, Villon’s Good-Night. You swatchel coves that pitch and SLAM.
