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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dunk
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
slam dunk
▪ The biggest legal slam dunk came when a judge sentenced four men to 505 years in prison.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bob/dunk/dip for apples
▪ Children from Much Marcle Primary School will be demonstrating how to bob for apples.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bill dunked a piece of bread in the soup.
▪ Keefe dunked to bring Stanford's lead to 10 points.
▪ My daughter likes to dunk her biscuits in my tea.
▪ The old men sit around the table talking and dunking donuts into their coffee.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But when her muzzle was dunked in the water almost over her nostrils, the temptation became too much.
▪ Our day started with my brewing coffee with the beans Jean-Claude ground, and buttering lengths of baguette to dunk.
▪ She was denied food and sleep, shocked with electricity and dunked into vats of water until she nearly drowned.
▪ Some were plucked from the seas more than two centuries ago and dunked in ship's rum to keep them from rotting.
▪ The Lakers got within a point with 27. 6 seconds left after Eddie Jones dunked home a Johnson lob.
▪ The luscious claw meat especially, dunked in butter, is dangerously good.
▪ Then she dunked her right hand in a bowl of ice to numb the cramping.
▪ We stayed right with him, though, because at last Seve dunked in a long one.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dunk

1919, American English, from Pennsylvania German dunke "to dip," from Middle High German dunken, from Old High German dunkon, thunkon "to soak," from PIE root *teng- "to soak" (see tincture).\n

\nBasketball sense is first recorded 1937 as a verb, 1971 as a noun (earlier dunk shot). German-American Anabaptist sect of Dunkers (who baptize with triple immersion) first recorded by that name 1756.

Wiktionary
dunk

n. The act of dunking, particularly in basketball. vb. 1 To submerge briefly in a liquid. 2 To set down carelessly. 3 (context ambitransitive basketball English) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power.

WordNet
dunk

n. a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket [syn: dunk shot, stuff shot]

dunk
  1. v. immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint" [syn: dip, souse, plunge, douse]

  2. make a dunk shot, in basketball; "He dunked the ball"

  3. dip into a liquid while eating; "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce" [syn: dip]

Wikipedia
Dunk

Dunk, Dunks, or Dunking may refer to:

Dunk (band)

Dunk, also previously known as Starkicker, was a Canadian power pop band from Niagara Falls, Ontario, who were active in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Dunk (elephant)

Dunk (c. 1861 – March 30, 1917), a tuskless, male Asian Elephant possibly from Ceylon, was the first elephant to reside at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. He was given to the National Zoo on April 30, 1891 by James E. Cooper, owner and manager of the Adam Forepaugh Circus.

When Dunk first arrived at the National Zoo, he had no shelter and was tied to a tree with his companion Gold Dust to prevent him from wandering. Once a day, both elephants were walked to Rock Creek to swim. A temporary structure, known as the Octagonal House, was eventually built for the elephants. Construction on a permanent, brick elephant house, designed by Hornblower & Marshall, began in September 1902 and was completed in January 1903.

Dunk was ill throughout the winter of 1917. On March 30, 1917, after Dunk broke his shoulder in a fall, keeper William Blackburne euthanized him by shooting.

Despite a famous ill-temper, Dunk was popular with the children of Washington, D.C. To commemorate his memory, they raised money for a plaque, which remains in the elephant house at the National Zoo today.

Usage examples of "dunk".

He had, through it all, clung to his bag of Chips Ahoy cookies, and now he slipped one from the bag, and dunked it into his tea.

Barrelstave and Lapith Hornbeam and a couple of the Dunk clan, fell on the attackers and dragged them back.

It was cold, but a sideways glance at Iral convinced him to dunk his face and scrub at it with his hands.

On his arrival Richard was literally set upon by Meeta and Palenque who playfully and repeatedly dunked him.

As the giant troop-carrying gliders soared in, I seized them with psychokinesis, or what-have you, and dunked them one by one in the river.

Flora spooned up some of her soup - she was hungry, and it smelled good - and ripped apart one of the small loaves for dunking.

His swordpoint scraped a rondel, and Dunk, overextended, almost lost his seat.

He handed over the empty Crock-Pot that held the Rotel dip the men insisted on having at every gathering, a spicy tomato and Velveeta concoction for dunking their Tostitos.

Rip is in an aquatic and sportif mood, clambering up the side of the fountain and very seriously dunking of jumping in, but there is the problem of his back legs.

Dornish knights told him as he helped Dunk strip the stot of saddle and bridle.

A column of mounted crossbowmen brought up the rear, and fanned out to either side of the road when they reached the Chequy Water and saw Dunk waiting on the other side.

Then, after they reached Cil Chasm where they intended to stay, she and Rish and Dunker, two charter members of her personal fan club at Pehanron, had spent an hour fishing along the little river, up into the canyon and back down again.

Valia and Dunker coming up behind him, started to say something, shook his head, slid into the car, and turned on the communicator.

Telzey glanced at them, checked the watch Dunker had loaned her after she smashed the one in her wrist-talker on the fishing excursion.

Rish frowned, glanced back at Valia and Dunker coming up behind him, started to say something, shook his head, slid into the car, and turned on the communicator.