DUNK meaning: Slamming a basketball through hoop

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word dunk:

General (22 matching dictionaries)

dunk: Merriam-Webster
dunk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
dunk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
dunk: Collins English Dictionary
dunk: Vocabulary.com
Dunk, dunk: Wordnik
dunk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Dunk, dunk: Wiktionary
dunk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
dunk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
dunk: Infoplease Dictionary
dunk: Dictionary.com
dunk: Online Etymology Dictionary
dunk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Dunk (biscuit), Dunk (elephant), Dunk (mascot), Dunk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
dunk: Rhymezone
dunk: FreeDictionary.org
dunk: Mnemonic Dictionary
dunk: TheFreeDictionary.com
dunk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Dunk (disambiguation), dunk: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

dunk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

dunk: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

dunk: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

dunk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Dunk, dunk, the dunk: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)

Sports Terms (No longer online)
Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
dunk: Golfer's Dictionary
Dunk: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  (transitive) To submerge briefly in a liquid.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To set down carelessly.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, Internet slang) To put down on social media [with on].
▸ noun:  The act or instance of dunking, particularly in basketball.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  A locality in Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia, which includes the Family Islands; one is Dunk Island, named after George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax.

Similar:

douse, plunge, dip, dunk shot, souse, duck, dive, dabble, dunk on, take a dip, more...

Opposite:

soar, ascend, rise, elevate, lift

Types:

windmill, alley-oop, reverse, spine-buster, dagger, buzzer beater, more...

Phrases:

slam dunk, dunk tank, dunk shot, dunk shots, reverse dunk, more...

Adjectives:

dinky, slam, first, handed, quick, old, thunderous, spectacular, reverse, easy, poor

Colors:

orange, brown, black, white, red, more...