hammer

slang

1. To attack (someone) relentlessly and aggressively. Their offense has been hammering the opposition all game long. The enemy has been hammering us with bombardments for two days straight. Your opponent is going to hammer you about these polarizing issues during the debate.

2. To defeat (someone) very thoroughly or decisively. They ended up hammering the other team 45–10. That senator's extremely popular, so I'm not surprised she hammered her opponent and beat him in a landslide. We thought we were the better team going into the game, but those guys sure hammered us.

3. In cycling, to pedal very quickly and aggressively, especially in higher gears. I hammered for the last two hours to Lyon in an attempt to make up lost time. I would hoping to really hammer and make up the difference, but a leg cramp did me in. Luckily, she wasn't hammering when she crashed her bike—otherwise, her injuries would be far more severe.

hammered

slang Very drunk. I just can't go out and get hammered like I used to when I was in college. She was so hammered she could barely say her own name. A: "Wait, you were at the bar last night too? Why don't remember seeing you?" B: "Probably because you were hammered by the time I got there!"

hammer

n. the accelerator of a vehicle. She pressed down the hammer, and off they went.

hammered

mod. alcohol intoxicated. Man, old Fred was really hammered.

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