What's the difference between shammer and slammer?
Shammer
Definition:
(n.) One who shams; an impostor.
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Slammer
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(1) For instance, there is literally no one in the United States who has ever pounded a dinner table in outrage over government complacency, yelling, "But if we're so tough on financial crime, why haven't we thrown those obscure Asian bureaucrats of a foreign bank into the slammer for fixing a London-based interest rate?!"
(2) Short of ordering all prisoners to be flogged twice daily, I can think of nothing more calculated to cause unrest in the slammers than banning snout, burn, tobacco.
(3) This suggests that, today, Newsnight’s releasing the FBI document would land me or my informants in the slammer.
(4) Bovine corneal endothelial cells were cultured on a Collodion film which covered a hole punched in a plastic coverslip, and were quickly frozen with a slammer with their basal surface facing a liquid nitrogen-cooled copper block.
(5) And we'll live on ice cream and blueberry truffles and pancakes dripping with molasses, washed down with tequila slammers and absinthe.
(6) Click here to view video The trailer didn't look promising – Waspy blonde gets sent to the slammer where she learns how hard life is for poor black people – but this comedy-drama is finely balanced, funny, sharp and easy to love.
(7) If you ask for a tequila slammer, it will be served with a withering put down – this isn't that sort of establishment.