ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Dunking

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Dunking is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of dunk.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of dunk.

More Meanings

  1. (basketball) Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.
  2. 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.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plunge, douse, dip, souse, slam, soaking.

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