slam-clicker

noun

An unsociable crewmember who prefers to stay in his or her hotel room between flights.

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Meanings

nounslam-clicker (plural slam-clickers)

plural slam-clickers

  1. slangamong flight attendants and pilotsAn unsociable crewmember who prefers to stay in his or her hotel room between flights.

    I’m going to call them Honest Eyes until I know if they are, in the interval called slam-clicker, Realm of Pacific, […]

    1999, David Berman, Actual Air (Open City Books), poem “Cassette County”, page 19
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    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.

    1982, Working Woman (Hal Publications), volume 7, issues 7–12, page 225

Origin

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

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Chicago

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