Slam

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

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
• Slam (Dan Reed Network album) [de], 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

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)