"Dunlap" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers
Dunlap is a surname of English origin, derived from the Old English words "dun" meaning "brown" and "lāp" meaning "enclosure" or "zigzag". As a given name, Dunlap likely referred to someone with a brown coloring, possibly of their hair or skin. As a surname, it may have originally referred to someone who lived near a place with a brown or brown-striped boundary, or possibly someone with a brown-colored strip of cloth or other material.
The verb "dunking" refers to the act of throwing a ball through a hoop or basket, usually done by slamming the ball down with great force, as in a dunk shot or dunk contest.
Dunkirk is a noun that refers to a major World War II evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, France, in May and June 1940. In 1940, during the Battle of France, large numbers of Allied soldiers were trapped by the German army in the port city of Dunkirk, France. Under heavy bombardment, the Allied forces were unable to break out, but a larger rescue effort led by the British Royal Navy and a flotilla of small boats was successful in evacuating over 338,000 soldiers back to Britain.