What is "slam dunk"

alt. 1 (context basketball English) An impressively forceful dunk. 2 (context colloquial idiomatic English) A task expected to present no difficulty. 3 (context yachting English) Tacking on top of the wind of the following yacht in close quarters n. 1 (context basketball English) An impressively forceful dunk. 2 (context colloquial idiomatic English) A task expected to present no difficulty. 3 (context yachting English) Tacking on top of the wind of the following yacht in close quarters vb. To perform a slam dunk.

1. n. something that is a sure to occur; a foregone conclusion; "predicting his success was a slam dunk"

2. a forceful dunk

A slam dunk, also dunk or dunk shot, is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air, controls the ball(s) above the horizontal plane of the rim, and scores by putting the ball directly through the basket with one or both hands. This is considered a normal field goal attempt; if successful it is worth two points. Such a shot was known as a "dunk shot" until the term "slam dunk" was coined by former Los Angeles Lakers announcer Chick Hearn.

The slam dunk is the most efficient basketball shot. Moreover, it is a crowd-pleaser. Thus, the maneuver is often extracted from the basketball game and showcased in slam dunk contests. Perhaps the most popular is the NBA Slam Dunk Contest held during the annual NBA All-Star Weekend. The seminal incarnation of the NBA Slam Dunk Contest was held during the half-time of the 1976 American Basketball Association All-Star Game.

Dunking was banned in the NCAA from 1967 to 1976. Many people have attributed this to the dominance of the then-college phenomenon Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar); the no-dunking rule is sometimes referred to as the "Lew Alcindor rule."

The phrase "slam dunk" has since entered popular usage in American English, meaning a "sure thing": an action with a guaranteed outcome, or a similarly impressive achievement, in the same way that the baseball-inspired phrases "step up to the plate" or "he hit it out of the park" were more commonly used in previous years.

is a sports-themed manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue about a basketball team from Shōhoku High School. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1990 to 1996, with the chapters collected into 31 tankōbon volumes by Shueisha. It was adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation which has been broadcast worldwide, enjoying much popularity particularly in Japan, several other Asian countries and Europe. As of 2012, Slam Dunk had sold 120 million copies in Japan alone, making it one of the best-selling manga series in history. Inoue later used basketball as a central theme in two subsequent manga titles: Buzzer Beater and Real. In 2010, Inoue received special commendations from the Japan Basketball Association for helping popularize basketball in Japan.

A slam dunk is a type of basketball shot.

Slam dunk may also refer to:

• Slam Dunk (manga), a Japanese manga series by Takehiko Inoue
• Slam Dunk (film) or Kung Fu Dunk, a 2008 Chinese film loosely based on the manga
• Slam-dunk, in low-dimensional topology, a useful move of the Kirby calculus
• " Slam Dunk (Da Funk)", a 1997 song by Five
• Slam Dunk Records, a UK record label
• Slamdunk Film Festival, a "counter-festival" in Park City, Utah, held during the Sundance Film Festival 1998-2003
• "Slam Dunk", a song by Quiet Riot from their 1999 album Alive and Well
• Smash in tennis

"Slam Dunk (Da Funk)" is a song by British boy band Five, released as their first UK single in late 1997. It appeared on their first album, 5ive, in early 1998. The song reached number 10 on the UK charts and sold around 500,000 copies worldwide. Featuring a blend of pop and rap, the single was produced by Jake Schulze (as "Jake"), Max Martin, and Denniz Pop. The track contains a sample of "Clap Your Hands" by Herbie Crichlow.

It was not released in many countries other than the UK and none outside Europe apart from the United States and New Zealand, where it reached number 86 and number 22, respectively. Also in the U.S., the song was chosen as the NBA's new theme song. In other countries, Five's first single was " When the Lights Go Out". The song was featured on the soundtrack to the TV series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and the Disney Channel Original Movie Smart House.

During the band's greatest hits tour in 2013 Scott Robinson and Abz Love have changed the lyrics of the song. Instead of the line "when the 5 of us make 1" Scott would sing "when the 4 of us make 1" acknowledging the fact that J didn't reunite with the band earlier in the year. The line "We got J, A, B Rich, Sean and Scott" was changed to "We got Abz on the mic Rich, Sean and Scott" by Abz

Upon Abz's departure from the band rapping duties were handed to Scott and the line would then once again be changed to " We got Rich and Sean and Scott La rock".