little slam

1. 1.

   winning all but one of the tricks in a hand of bridge

   Synonymssmall slam

   Broaderslam

Questions about little slam

What does little slam mean?

little slam means "winning all but one of the tricks in a hand of bridge".

What is another word for little slam?

Close synonyms include small slam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is little slam a common word?

little slam is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.