slam piece
English
Noun
slam piece (plural slam pieces)
- (informal) A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a highly unfavorable manner.
- 1983, Mark Goldman, High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York, University of New York Press (1983), →ISBN, page 274:
- The article, one paper said, was not a "slam piece, another one of those shots of bad national publicity about Buffalo."
- 1991, Mayer Mitchell & Thomas A. Dine, "AIPAC's Action Alert", The Washington Post, 11 March 1991:
- Rowland Evans and Robert Novak have produced another "slam piece" about the American Israel Public Affairs Committee […]
- 1995, Adam Parfrey, Cult Rapture, Feral House (1995), →ISBN, page 258:
- A Solider of Fortune slam piece sought to devalue Gritz among his own jingoistic constituency.
- 1983, Mark Goldman, High Hopes: The Rise and Decline of Buffalo, New York, University of New York Press (1983), →ISBN, page 274:
- (slang) A sexual partner with whom one has no particular emotional attachment.
- 2008, Arianne Cohen, "The Multi-Orgasmic Woman Test-driving a Potential New Boyfriend", New York Magazine, 11 February 2008:
- Discover gay roommate has just stumbled home from a night with his “slam piece.”
- 2009, Steve Austin, "Lustful advice for the loveless", Cavalier Daily, 13 February 2009:
- Of course, there’s also the holy Facebook trinity — wall posts, messages (it makes him feel like you’re keeping a big secret, which sends the right message that you’re not above being the secret slam piece on the side) and the coup de grace — pokes (which let him know you’re not a prude and happy to make things physical).
- 2011, Keith Merryman, David A. Newman, & Will Gluck, Friends with Benefits:
- Lorna: So, my daughter is just your slam piece?
- Lorna: So, my daughter is just your slam piece?
- 2012, Mike Lacher, On the Bro'd: A Parody of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Adams Media (2012), →ISBN,unnumbered page:
- Ricky was crashing with his slam piece Liana; he said she had a posse of hot friends and everything would be raw as hell.
- 2012, Kelsey Castanon, "S**t nobody says at K-state: from parking praise to spring fever", Kansas State Collegian, 19 April 2012, page 4:
- Her straightforward messages of "meat is murder" and "every frat guy has a slam piece" really went over well with the student body.
- 2008, Arianne Cohen, "The Multi-Orgasmic Woman Test-driving a Potential New Boyfriend", New York Magazine, 11 February 2008:
Synonyms
- (highly unfavorable treatment): hatchet job.
- (casual sexual partner): see also Thesaurus:casual sexual partner.
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