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the only chair where being insulted is the whole point of sitting down
means A carnival game in which a person sits on a hinged seat above a tank of water, plunging in when someone hits a target with a thrown ball.
from A plain American compound of "dunk" and "tank." "Dunk" comes from a Pennsylvania Dutch word "dunke," meaning to dip — likely related to German "tunken," to dip in liquid — which gave us the soaked-doughnut sense before it gave us the soaked-volunteer one. "Tank" arrived in English from a Gujarati or Marathi word for a reservoir or pond, picked up during British colonial India. Bolt the dipping word to the reservoir word and you get a contraption that has been a carnival and fundraiser staple since at least the early-to-mid 20th century.
- trigger size
- target the size of a dinner plate
- carnival roots
- early versions dropped people onto spikes, then water
- heckle license
- taunting the clown is officially encouraged
- physics flex
- one soft ball drops a grown adult instantly
- charity staple
- fundraisers dunk bosses for paying crowds
shaquille o'neal dunk tank — nba star dunked on celebrities at 2020 all-star weekend in chicago
carnival dunking booth — traditional amusement park attraction where crowds pay to dunk operators in tanks