hammer

1. (figuratively) To emphasize a point repeatedly.figuratively

2. (sports, etc.) To hit particularly hard.Examples: "This time the defender was teed up by Andrew Johnson's short free-kick on the edge of the box and Baird hammered his low drive beyond Begovic's outstretched left arm and into the bottom corner, doubling his goal tally for the season and stunning the home crowd."; ""My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard.""usually

3. (cycling, intransitive, slang) To ride very fast.Examples: "Fifteen minutes later, leaving a vapour trail of kitchen smells, I hammered into Obterre."; "Running at line-speed, well over 100mph, it hammers through Doncaster on its way south to London."intransitiveslang

4. (intransitive) To strike internally, as if hit by a hammer.Examples: "I could hear the engine’s valves hammering once the timing rod was thrown."intransitive

5. (transitive, slang, figuratively, sports) To defeat (a person, a team) resoundingly.Examples: "We hammered them 5-0!"figurativelyslangtransitive

6. (transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).Examples: "So we'll be hammering the server in an unrealistic manner, but we'll see how the additional clients affect overall performance. We'll add two, three, four, and then five clients, […]"slangtransitive

1. (soccer) someone connected with West Ham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.