Dunking

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  • v. Present participle of dunk.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.
  • Word Usage
    "Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb want to call torturers 'American heroes' and make light of waterboarding by calling it 'dunking' - ought to believe in making its use widespread."
    Verb Form
    dunked    dunking    dunks   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    eat   
    Cross Reference
    jam    alley oop    slam   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Funk    Monk    blunk    bunk    chunk   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    prada    hogan    shox    wristlock    slam