slam-clicker

English

Etymology

slam +‎ click +‎ -er, suggesting the sound of closing and locking a door.

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Noun

slam-clicker (plural slam-clickers)

  1. (slang, among flight attendants and pilots) An unsociable crewmember who prefers to stay in his or her hotel room between flights.
    • 1982, Working Woman (Hal Publications), volume 7, issues 7–12, page 225:
      The pilots taunt me: “Slam-clicker” (a crew member who goes straight to his or her room and doesn’t come out). That’s me tonight.
    • 1999, David Berman, Actual Air (Open City Books), poem “Cassette County”, page 19:
      I’m going to call them Honest Eyes until I know if they are,
      in the interval called slam-clicker, Realm of Pacific, […]
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