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slam-clicker

noun

Etymology

From slam + click + -er, suggesting the sound of closing and locking a door.

  1. derived from *wer-✻
  2. derived from *warjaz✻
  3. inherited from *-wari✻
  4. inherited from -ware
  5. inherited from -ware
  6. derived from *-tōr✻
  7. derived from -tor
  8. derived from -or
  9. derived from -ier
  10. inherited from -er
  11. derived from -ārius
  12. inherited from *-ārijaz✻
  13. inherited from *-ārī✻
  14. inherited from -ere
  15. inherited from -ere, -er
  16. compounded as slam-clicker — “slam + click + -er”

Definitions

  1. An unsociable crewmember who prefers to stay in his or her hotel room between flights.

    • The pilots taunt me: “Slam-clicker” (a crew member who goes straight to his or her room and doesn’t come out). That’s me tonight.
    • I’m going to call them Honest Eyes until I know if they are, in the interval called slam-clicker, Realm of Pacific, […]

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