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grand slam
[ grand slam ]
noun
- Bridge. the winning of all thirteen tricks of a deal. Compare little slam.
- Also grand-slammer. Baseball. a home run with three runners on base.
- Sports. the winning by a single player of several designated major championship contests in one season, as in golf or tennis.
- any sweeping success or total victory.
grand slam
noun
- bridge the winning of 13 tricks by one player or side or the contract to do so
- tennis golf
- the winning of all major competitions in a season, esp in tennis and golf
- one of the 4 major competitions in a season in tennis
- often capital rugby Union the winning of all five games in the annual Six Nations Championship involving England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, and Italy Compare triple crown
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of grand slam1
Idioms and Phrases
A sweeping success or total victory, as in This presentation gave us a grand slam—every buyer placed an order . This term originated in the early 1800s in the card game of whist (forerunner of contract bridge), where it refers to the taking of all thirteen tricks. It later was extended to bridge and various sports, where it has different meanings: in baseball, a home run hit with runners on all the bases, resulting in four runs for the team; in tennis, winning all four national championships in a single calendar year; in golf, winning all four major championships. In the 1990s the term was used for four related proposals presented on a ballot at once.Example Sentences
Logan O’Hoppe hit a grand slam to give the Angels a seventh-inning lead, but the Cardinals scored nine runs in their last two turns at the plate to rally.
Koepka, who is the only other golfer to win a major while playing the LIV schedule - the 2023 US PGA - has long enjoyed a reputation for reserving his best form for grand slam events.
Five months after his walk-off grand slam to win Game 1 of the World Series, the Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman is still absorbing the impact of it on fans — a feeling Kirk Gibson understands.
And in the moment, he could feel Freeman’s grand slam was about to happen.
Tiger Woods makes his latest comeback this week at Torrey Pines and we are edging ever closer to the year's first major at a time when the four grand slam tournaments have never been stronger.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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