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slam dunk, slam-dunk Basketball: A forceful, dramatic move, especially against someone. In basketball, it is a forceful shot in which the player jumps to the basket and slams the ball in. OED only cites the basketball definition, and that to 1976; [ 73 ] AHDI cites a figurative usage from "about 1980 on". [ 74 ]
The NCAA even banned the dunk from 1967 to 1976, which, when you think about it, is remarkably stupid: Hey, let’s eliminate the most kinetic part of the game, the play that makes fans stand and ...
The phrase "slam dunk" is not a separate sign whose meaning is arbitrary (that is, unrelated to the shot in basketball). It is very much part of our understanding of a slam dunk (in basketball) that it is a "sure thing," just as it is very much part of our understanding of Sliced bread that it is associated with a common phrase. Of course, we ...
A slam dunk, also simply known as a dunk, is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air, controls the ball above the horizontal plane of the rim, and scores by shoving the ball directly through the basket with one or both hands. [1]
1. An actual or attempted strike of another player with one's elbow. Especially violent examples are typically called as flagrant fouls. 2. The court area where the free-throw line meets the side of the three-second lane. end of quarter When a quarter ends. English Sidespin applied to the basketball by a player shooting a layup.
LeBron James of the Los Angeles Lakers posterizes former teammate Kevin Love in a game against the Cleveland Cavaliers on March 21, 2022.. Posterized is North American slang, [1] derived from an action in the game of basketball in which the offensive player performs a slam dunk over a defending player, in a play that is spectacular and athletic enough to warrant reproduction in a printed ...
One of his most exciting dunks was a high-flying dunk over former Slam Dunk Contest winner, 5'7" Spud Webb. The 2006 Slam Dunk Contest was also the first Dunk Contest in history to have a "Dunk Off", the equivalent to a Dunk Contest overtime, between Knicks point guard Nate Robinson and shooting guard Andre Iguodala of the Philadelphia 76ers ...
Takehiko Inoue (井上 雄彦, Inoue Takehiko, born 12 January 1967) is a Japanese manga artist.He is best known for the basketball series Slam Dunk (1990–1996), and the jidaigeki manga Vagabond, which are two of the best-selling manga series in history.