Slammer

As far as I am concerned, prison and slammer are different things.

Tom is back in the slammer.

Tom's back in the slammer.

They'll all go to the slammer.

Teodoro is always getting into trouble. Yesterday he spent the night in the slammer.

Margaret was also, by her own admission, a determined slammer of doors.

A man being sentenced for starving some horses chose 24 hours in the slammer with no food rather than seven days with the regular amenities.

The basic modern 'Pog' game is played thus. Each child tosses a pog into the arena, face-up or face-down, as agreed. Each player in turn takes his slammer and pitches it hard onto the accumulated pile of pogs.

I was in Britain, wanting to take a train to Portsmouth, and I only needed a one-way ticket. I did love the English trains; we still had slammers then. A slammer is a train where you got to slam the door shut yourself.