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Grand slam   /grænd slæm/   Listen
noun
Slam  n.  
1.
The act of one who, or that which, slams.
2.
The shock and noise produced in slamming. "The slam and the scowl were lost upon Sam."
3.
(Card Playing) 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).
4.
The refuse of alum works. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Grand slam" Quotes from Famous Books



... if they do it before the Cape Canaveral gets in, they may fix Leo Belsher, too, and then, in the general excitement, somebody might clobber Mort Hallstock, and that'd be grand slam. After the triple funeral, we could go to work on setting up an honest ...
— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper
... persuading him that we have an Etonian General in this part of the line, a very celebrated 'wet-bob.'" Which sprightly suggestion made the Brigadier-General smile. But it was my good fortune to go one better. I had to partner him at bridge, and brought off a grand slam. ...
— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)


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