Sports
Spelling bee contestants love to dab
by Tyler Munro
May 27, 2016
You’d hit them with the dab too if you could spell “nagelfluh” on the first try.
You can’t go to a sporting event without seeing a dab or two. From dabbing athletes to dabbing teens on the jumbotron, the dance (is it even a dance?) introduced by Migos and popularized to the dismay of white parents by Cam Newton has become a mainstay in popular culture.
What might surprise you, then, is its crossover appeal — as of this week, the dab has officially hit the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Whether or not you consider spelling to be a sport is irrelevant, because as you’ll see in the dank ass Vine below, dabbing on a clutch etymological come through is, for these kids, as exciting as dabbing after a big dunk or 30 yard touch down.
Like, could you spell “nagelfluh” on your first try? I’m not even sure I could pronounce it.