wall-slam

wall-slam (plural wall-slams)

1. Alternative form of wall slam (“a slam against a wall”).
   • 2008, Ed Greenwood, “Great Slaughtering Battle”, in Dark Vengeance (A Novel of Niflheim; 2), New York, N.Y.: Tor, →ISBN, page 223:

     Not wanting to lose his favorite sword, Orivon hung on grimly to its hilt. During one of its drawing backs, between wall-slams, he leaned down and planted his other sword against the wall, point out and hilt against the stone.

   • 2019 October 12, Hugo Rifkind, “Daniel Jones, CIA torture and the truth behind The Report”, in The Times‎^[1], London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 July 2025:

     For years, Daniel J Jones worked in a windowless room in Virginia, poring over documents detailing acts that can only be described as torture. Over and over again, he read about wall-slams and beatings, people waterboarded until their eyes rolled back and the liquid bubbled from their nose.

   • 2020 May 5, Levi Weaver, “Ranking the 10 best seasons ever by a Rangers center fielder”, in The Athletic‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 December 2025:

     That wasn’t an aberration, either. Despite the highlight-reel catches and wall-slams, Hamilton’s defense was, by measure of dWAR, actually a liability more often than it was a benefit.

   • 2021 January 15, Susannah Goldsbrough, “First surgery, then sex: how Grey’s Anatomy became a TV juggernaut”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph‎^[3], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 January 2021:

     For every patient patched back together, another set of scrubs is torn off. It’s never long or graphic – this is a show made for prime-time American cable TV – but it’s shamelessly intense: think wall-slams, heavy pop soundtracks, and lots of breathy snogging.

wall-slam (third-person singular simple present wall-slams, present participle wall-slamming, simple past and past participle wall-slammed)

1. (uncommon) To slam against a wall.

   Alternative form: (rare) wallslam

   • 1995 March 22, SirRichard, “[KOF94] Help with Rugal t”, in rec.games.video.arcade‎^[4] (Usenet), archived from the original on 3 December 2025:

     For Mai & Yuri, the waiting game consists of hitting him out of his Rush move where he tries to wall-slam you.

   • 1998, Sports Team Analysis and Tracking Systems, Inc., “Rusty Greer”, in John Dewan, Don Zminda, Jim Callis, editors, The Scouting Notebook: 1998, Skokie, Ill.: STATS Publishing, →ISBN, page 296, column 1:

     Greer is an aggressive fielder with a flair for making diving catches coming in and wall-slamming catches going back.

   • 2001, Patrick Thomas, Fools’ Day: A Tale from Bulfinche’s Pub (Murphy’s Lore; 2), Farmingdale, N.Y.: Padwolf Publishing, →ISBN, page 83:

     As Dr. Hanley was not quite getting the point Sun was wishing to make, he grabbed her with both hands and wall-slammed her twice, knocking the air out of her.

   • 2009 April 16, Chris Floyd, “Tortured Logic: Obama Writes Off Old Crimes While Promoting New Outrages”, in Empire Burlesque […]‎^[5], archived from the original on 20 April 2009; quoted in Robin T Cox, “Tortured Logic: […]”, in uk.current-events.terrorism‎^[6] (Usenet), 17 April 2019, archived from the original on 3 December 2025:

     Leaving aside the fact that apparently none of these great, courageous, self-sacrificing, vigilant defenders of our "core values" (as Obama lauds them) considered these tortures to be inherently immoral, but simply wanted to cover their ass legally before they wall-slammed the hell out of somebody or poured water down their throats until they began to choke and drown -- the fact is, they were told quite specifically by Bush's White House shysters that there was no guarantee that their actions would be considered legal by a court.

   • 2020 March 17, Kathy Reichs, “Friday, June 22”, in A Conspiracy of Bones (A Temperance Brennan Novel; 19), New York, N.Y.: Scribner, →ISBN, pages 4–5:

     Why was I letting this guy fluster me? In my line of work, I encountered far worse than a dude dressed like Bogie in Casablanca. […] Drunken bullies who wall-slam fussy infants.

   • 2020 October 6, Junko, translated by [Barbara Vincent], “Stage. 7: Stans Can’t Be Friends”, in Star⇄Crossed!!, volume 3, New York, N.Y.: Kodansha USA Publishing, →ISBN, page 27:

     EEK! A WALL-SLAM! HE WALL-SLAMMED!! CHIKA -KUN!! HOW COULD HE?!