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Definition of "dunking" [dunking]

  • Present participle of dunk. (verb)
  • 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. (noun)
  • Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above. (noun)

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Use "dunking" in a sentence
  • "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."
  • "Pacino is led into it for his baptism, and the dunking is a violent spasm, as if the attendants want to drown him instead."
  • "Others held Oreo-themed basketball games to reinforce the idea of dunking cookies in milk."