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▪ I. dunk, v. orig. U.S.|dʌŋk|
[Pennsylvanian G. dunke to dip (cf. G. tunken).]
1. trans. To dip (bread, cake, etc.) into a beverage or other liquid. Also absol., transf., and fig.
1919[implied at dunking below]. 1927Dialect Notes V. 474 Them young-uns is allus a-dunkin' their bread in th' bottom-sop. 1931Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 21 Feb. 10 The pone should be ‘dunked’ in the likker. 1940in Amer. Speech (1941) XVI. 147/2 Dunk your nylons in rich suds of neutral soap. 1941‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon II. 311 Constantine sat dunking a roll in his coffee. 1951M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 4/2 The same man would rather dunk himself in the newspaper than have any esthetic or intellectual grasp of its character and meaning. The incorrigible dunker would perhaps do well to skip the next few pages. 1958G. Mitchell Spotted Hemlock xvi. 187 ‘For heaven's sake, don't stop eating,’ said Miss Paterson, herself dunking a doughnut. 1959M. M. Kaye House of Shade iii. 36 ‘He's a one, isn't he? Your gentleman friend,’ said the blonde, dunking Dany's head into a basin. 1959Manch. Guardian 26 June 5/3 Nylon sheets..can be ‘dunked’ along with underclothes or put in a washing machine. 1971Nature 26 Feb. 597/1 But the possibility that the RNA picks up basic proteins when dunked in the cytoplasm cannot be disregarded.
2. Basketball. To push (the ball) down through the basket, esp. by jumping so that the hand is above the level of the ring.
1937F. C. Allen Better Basketball vii. 82 The tall offensive player may tip-in, dunk, or push the ball into the basket. 1956J. McCreary Winning High School Basketball iv. 43 A player who cannot ‘dunk’ the ball—get above the goal and drop the ball through—must use the board on a straight drive-in shot. 1979Arizona Daily Star 5 Aug. i. 5/4 What most of these players have in common..is their belief in the dream that shows them hitting home runs or dunking the winning shot in front of thousands of applauding fans. 1985N.Y. Times 10 July a17/1 He dunks the ball quite well.
Hence ˈdunker, ˈdunking vbl. n.
1919Quill Feb. 12 (title) Some notes on dunking. Ibid. 16 It should be remembered that the really fastidious dunker never burns his thumb. 1931Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 21 Feb. 4/8 No information is given about dunking. Ibid. 2 Mar. 10 Governor Long..is champion of the dunkers. 1937F. C. Allen Better Basketball vii. 82 Dunking does not display basketball skill—only height advantage. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 271/2 Dunking, a colloquialism for the process of dipping the [cinematographic] film into chemical solutions for any stage of processing. 1960Times 30 Nov. 13/6 In naval parlance a ‘dunker’ never becomes immersed except in dire emergency, and only a part of his equipment, in the form of a sonar buoy, is lowered into the sea. This is the device which enables the helicopter crew to ‘listen in’ for submarines. Ibid., My interest in dunking arose through my being in the aero engine business. 1975Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 67/1 In N.C.A.A. rules only, the method of scoring known as ‘dunking’, whereby a player takes the ball above the ring and forces it downwards into the basket, is prohibited.
▪ II. dunk, n. Basketball (orig. U.S.).
[f. dunk v. 2.]
1. A shot made by jumping high into the air and pushing the ball down through the basket from above the level of the ring. Cf. slam dunk s.v. slam n.1 5.
[1966: see sense 2 below.] 1971Hollander & Padwe Basketball Lingo 32 Dunk: a crowd-pleasing shot made popular by big men. 1976Sunday Tel. 13 Mar. 36/7 The dunk is a clever and exhilarating scoring shot. 1979Time 13 Aug. 34/1 Herb Williams, 21, a forward from Ohio State, slammed home a fearsome dunk against Yugoslavia and shattered the backboard in the process. 1982S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 58 The dunk was banned from college play..in 1968. 1985N.Y. Times 1 July c9/4 One of dozens of basketball camps.., this one seems to be more than merely a showcase for dunks and behind-the-back passes.
2. Comb. dunk shot = sense 1 above.
1966J. Wooden Pract. Mod. Basketball iii. 97 Not too many years ago I frowned on the use of the ‘*dunk’ shot. 1973P. Tamony Americanisms (typescript) No. 34. 4 In the 1940s efforts were made to neutralize the height advantage of 6.9 goons..through the..elimination of the center jump..and the ‘dunk’ shot. 1978J. Krantz Scruples iii. 72 Spider Elliott had lost his virginity in his senior year in high school to a horny, big-breasted girls' basketball coach who admired his dunk shots only less than the fit of his gym shorts, which one of his sisters had shrunk three sizes. 1982S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 58 Though to dunk had meant to shoot the ball through the basket in any way since the 1930s, tall, agile offensive players developed the modern dunk shot in the mid 1960s and the slam dunk in the early 1970s. |