dunking

Etymology

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of dunk

noun

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

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