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Dictionary > Definition: slammer

Definition of slammer
  1. a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
  2. a person who closes things violently; "she''s a dramatic slammer of doors"
Similar Words: jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink

Hyponyms: bastille, holding cell, hoosegow, hoosgow, house of correction, lockup, pokey, workhouse

Derivational Morphology: imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand, slam, bang

Anagrams: armless, smaller


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