slammed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of slam.

   The driver slammed on the brakes to avoid the cyclist.

   The window had slammed shut in the wind overnight.

   Note

   One spelling serves as both simple past and past participle, so the surrounding words show which is meant: she slammed the door, the window had slammed shut. Because slam works both ways, the door can be what slams or what gets slammed. With get or be, the participle often carries the verb's slang force of hitting someone hard: he got absolutely slammed; heavily invested portfolios were truly slammed.

2. 2
   adjective

   Extremely busy with work, with little time to spare.

   The accounting department is completely slammed during tax season.

   I'm slammed today, so can we move the call to tomorrow?

   Similarswamped, busy, overwhelmed, overloaded, inundated

   Oppositefree, idle, quiet

   Note

   A word of the shift and the deadline: the bartender too slammed to step in, the student slammed with a science project. It takes with plus a noun or -ing form for the cause, and it fits naturally into too…to and so…that. It is gradable (more slammed, most slammed), and absolutely is its favorite intensifier, a habit shared by the drunk meaning and the crowded-venue meaning.

3. 3
   adjective

   Packed and crowded, especially of a venue full of eager would-be customers.

   By nine o'clock the venue was slammed, with every table taken.

   The concert hall was slammed with fans waiting for the doors to open.

   Similarpacked, crowded, jammed, rammed, heaving

   Oppositeempty, deserted, dead

   Note

   Where the busy-with-work meaning describes people, this meaning describes the place: the bar, the tavern, the airport is slammed. The two often meet in one scene. A worker facing a full waiting room on Father's Day is slammed in both ways, so the subject tells you which is meant. Absolutely and even more are its usual company: even more slammed than Denver's.

4. 4
   adjective

   Heavily intoxicated by alcohol; drunk.

   She was so slammed she could barely stand up straight.

   Half the crew got slammed on cheap beer after their shift.

   Similardrunk, hammered, wasted, plastered, smashed

   Oppositesober

   Note

   Drinking talk pairs this meaning with get: you go out and get slammed, get really slammed. It belongs to alcohol in particular. A drinker can set it against stoned, keeping slammed for pints and stoned for cannabis, so keep it for drink rather than other intoxicants. Like its siblings it compares freely: more slammed than in a very long time.

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