dunk

Definition

  • n. a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket
  • v. immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
  • v. make a dunk shot, in basketball

Word forms

Past tense
dunked
Present participle
dunking
Past participle
dunked
Third person singular
dunks

Example sentences

  1. vt.

    She likes to dunk her cookies in milk before eating them.