dunking

About 0.09 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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. noun A forceful thrust of the ball through the basket from above.
3. verb present participle and gerund of dunk

Similar words

plunge douse dip souse dunk shot slam soaking demersion dunker dipping

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