Meanings
nounban hammer (plural ban hammers)
plural ban hammers
- alternativeAlternative form of banhammer.
Selling your Steam account is a huge violation of Steam’s Subscriber Agreement (..) Worse, someone from Valve was reading. Down came the ban hammer… freezing the Reddit user out of his Steam account.
2011 March 15, John Brownlee, “Valve teaches kid a lesson for trying to sell his Steam account”, in geek.com, Ziff Davis, archived from the original on 22 Sep 2019
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ban hammer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ban%20hammer
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“ban hammer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ban%20hammer. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ban hammer,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ban%20hammer.
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