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hammer verb- to drive a vehicle at maximum speed AUSTRALIA
- Talking of cars, Paddy and I were really belting it along the big new Middlesex motorway the other week, gave her the gun and bunged her up to ninety and we hammered her the whole way[.] — Barry Humphries, A Nice Night’s Entertainment, p. 42, 1960
- to inflict a resounding defeat UK, 1948
- Australia gets hammered by the All Blacks in Saturday night’s semi-final in Sydney, and loses its coveted World Cup. — The Belfast Telegraph, 13 November 2003
- to beat up UK, 1973
- [H]e’d come out of his house and fuckin’ beat him up. Hammer him. — Shaun Ryder, Shaun Ryder... in His Own Words, 1986
- to stretch physical limits UK
- I’ve done extra weights, hammered myself, I have–but I do feel fantastic. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 209, 2002
▶ get hammered- while surfing, to be knocked from your surfboard and violently thrashed by the surf US
- — Michael V. Anderson, The Bad, Rad, Not to Forget Way Cool Beach and Surf Discriptionary, p. 6, 1988
- in mountain biking, to experience a violent accident US
- — William Nealy, Mountain Bike!, p. 161, 1992: “Bikespeak”
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