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All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and... I was 24 or 25, and I'd slam dance in the pit.
William Forsythe

Meaning of "slam dance" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SLAM DANCE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SLAM DANCE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Slam dance is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

WHAT DOES SLAM DANCE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of slam dance in the English dictionary

The definition of slam dance in the dictionary is to hurl oneself repeatedly into or through a crowd at a rock-music concert.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SLAM DANCE

slakeable
slaked lime
slakeless
slaker
slalom
slalom descent
slalom racer
slalomer
slalomist
slam
slam dancing
slam dunk
slam-bang
slam-dunk
slammakin
slammed
slammer
slammerkin
slamming
slander

WORDS THAT END LIKE SLAM DANCE

abondance
abundance
accordance
advance
attendance
avoidance
belly dance
break dance
break-dance
child guidance
concordance
dance
dependance
folk dance
guidance
impedance
overabundance
school attendance
sun dance
tendance
war dance

Synonyms and antonyms of slam dance in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «slam dance» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SLAM DANCE

Find out the translation of slam dance to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of slam dance from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «slam dance» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

满贯舞
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

danza de golpe
570 millions of speakers

English

slam dance
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्लैम नृत्य
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الرقص البطولات الاربع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

шлема танец
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

dança de batida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্ল্যাম নাচ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

danse slam
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tarian slam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Slam Tanz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スラムダンス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

슬램 댄스
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tari slam
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhảy slam
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஸ்லாம் நடனமாடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्लॅम डान्स
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dans slam
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Slam danza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

slam taniec
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

шолома танець
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

dans slam
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

slam χορό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Slam dans
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

slam dance
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

slam dance
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of slam dance

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SLAM DANCE»

The term «slam dance» is normally little used and occupies the 122.791 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SLAM DANCE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about slam dance

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QUOTES WITH «SLAM DANCE»

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William Forsythe
All of the punk-rock bands of the era would come in and play, and my job on Punk Rock Night was that I would go into the slam pit, and... I was 24 or 25, and I'd slam dance in the pit.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLAM DANCE»

Discover the use of slam dance in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to slam dance and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Slam Dance with the Devil
Kent never expected Nona's response to be so intense, nor that she could enter his world and so thoroughly rock it. This is beyond a tumultuous love affair—this is a sexual and emotional bond that will change them both forever.
Nico Rosso, 2014
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The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and ...
20, 2nd September 1984: “Say it right” • — Nick Carroll, The Next Wave, 1991 7 to slam dance US, 1995 • Go to punk gigs by himself. Slam in the pit with the boys until the pain sweated out of him[.] — Francesca Lia Block, Baby Be-Bop, p. 410 ...
Tom Dalzell, 2008
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A Companion to Film Noir
In terms of this packaging of elements (director, actors, marketing materials), Slam Dance (Wang, 1987) is a particularly interesting as an example of independent film noir during the rental boom. Island Pictures recruited Wang by offering him ...
Andre Spicer, Helen Hanson, 2013
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The Studio: Introducing the Black Belt Babez
The Slam Dance girls figured they'd better get their stuff outof the bathroom, sothey gathered uptheir bags and equipment and putit in their bus. Mollie andBeth surveyed the bathroom and delighted inthe team's artful handiwork. Meanwhile the ...
Hikia, 2010
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Mother Jones Magazine
Indeed, sly collegial cracks about "working it out in conference committee" often allude to settling differences in the combative pas de deux of the Capitol slam- dance. Underlying causes: the end of square-dance populism, the erosion of ethnic ...
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Leisure and Feminist Theory
Roman's (1988) study of middleand working-class girls' involvement in the punk slam dance shows both male territoriality and male dominance from the very outset of the evening. The all-male band leads and controls the dance through the ...
Betsy Wearing, 1998
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Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series
*MOSH v.2); so slam dance n. 8: intr., slam dancer n. 1981 N. Y. Times 8 July 021 /5 The Los Angeles punks. .may get out of hand occasionally, but their widely condemned '*slam dancing', which involves careering into one another like ...
J. A. Simpson, Michael Proffitt, E. S. C. Weiner, 1997
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Chsr Poetry Slam: Speaking Poetry, the Alien Language of Choice
The summit is within reach solitary rocks pushing up as smoggy pipes steaming into the morning sky mist rising to be blown away but if only I could reach it! Pause. Breathe. Breathe heart beating a slam dance last chance, may I Derek ...
Andrew Titus, 1999
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Gender, Heteroglossia and Power: A Sociolinguistic Study of ...
Roman, in her ethnographic study of women's position vis-a-vis punk slam dance in an English town, reports that hard-core people saw other rock audiences as " passive consumers rather than active producers of music" and that this came ...
Joan Pujolar, 2001
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Ballroom, Boogie, Shimmy Sham, Shake: A Social and Popular ...
... the artists onstage, as an extension of their performance, and by audiences in response to the gig. Specific popular dances can also illustrate alliance to a particular music subgenre. Punks slam dance, metal fans headbang, and indie kids ...
Julie Malnig, 2009

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLAM DANCE»

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Park Police Slam Dancers at Jefferson Memorial
A handful of dancers got cuffed on Saturday for doing what they say the Founding Fathers would have wanted them to do - expressive dancing in National Parks. «NBC Washington, May 11»

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