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/dəNGk/,
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dunking, present participle; dunks, 3rd person singular present; dunked, past participle; dunked, past tense;
  1. Dip (bread or other food) into a drink or soup before eating it
    • - she dunked a piece of bread into her coffee
  2. Immerse or dip in water
    • - the bikers dunked themselves in the ocean
    • - the camera survived a dunking in a stream
  3. Baptize (someone) by immersion
    • - he's always trying to get me to go and be dunked into the church
  4. Score by shooting the ball down through the basket with the hands above the rim

Noun
  1. A shot downward into the basket with the hands above the rim

  1. a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket
  2. immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"
  3. dip into a liquid while eating; "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"
  4. Dunk was a Canadian band from Niagara Falls, Ontario.
  5. To dunk is to dip biscuit (or cookie), bread, cake, or doughnut into a beverage, especially tea, coffee, or cold milk as in the popular American snack, milk and cookies. Dunking releases more flavour from confections by dissolving the sugars, while also softening their texture. ...
  6. Dunk, (1861 ? - March 30, 1917), a tuskless, male Asian Elephant, possibly from Ceylon, was the first elephant to reside at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.. He was gifted to the National Zoo on April 30, 1891 by James E. Cooper, owner and manager of the Adam Forepaugh Circus.
  7. The Dunk was first introduced by Nike, Inc. in 1985. As the Nike Terminator’s "fraternal twin", originally having numerous colors in most sizes (Hi-Top or Low-Top) for various Universities and Colleges. ...
  8. The Dunkin' Donuts Center, also known as The Dunk, is an indoor arena, located in downtown Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
  9. Dunking is a form of torture and punishment that was applied to scolds and supposed witches.
  10. The act of dunking, particularly in basketball; To submerge briefly in a liquid; To set down carelessly; To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power
  11. (dunking) The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool; Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above
  12. (DUNKING) And ancient means of either punishing or proving witchcraft or adultry in Babylon. It was revised in Europe during the Burning Times with the witch either being tied to a chair and lever or simply being tied up and tossed into a river. ...
  13. (Dunking) (origin:: Niagara fa!!s): IIMA's answer to the patriot missiles ; long range aqueous projectiles aimed at an unsuspecting passerby providing source of immense gratification; this ritual for no perceivable reason, has a distinctive sexual bias.
  14. Dunking or stuffing is the driving, forcing, pushing or attempting to force a basketball through the basketball hoop with the hand(s).
  15. When a ball lands in a water hazard.
  16. A shot thrown downward through the basket, with one or two hands. Also: slam, slam-dunk, jam
  17. Scoring a basket by stuffing the ball into the basket from above the rim.
  18. when a player close to the basket jumps and strongly throws the ball down into it; an athletic, creative shot used to intimidate opponents.
  19. What happens when you are baptized in some churches.  Far from just getting wet, it is a powerful symbol that you now belong to Christ, and that He reigns in your life.  Good stuff, that dunking.
  20. When a golfer hits his/her ball into the water.
  21. a flirtaceous skunk with purple eyes, who Cabby contructed herself.^[4]
  22. (2h)[5:], DH is held so that the wrist is against the thumb of NDPO away, FO > DS. DH pronates, as if DH dunks ball into basket.
  23. To score by taking the ball and pushing down the net by two or one hands(s). (Also known as a FLUSH, JAM, SLAM, SLAM-DUNK, STUFF) Probably one of the most well known basketball phrases.