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dunk verb [ dʌŋk ]

• dip (bread or other food) into a drink or soup before eating it.
• "I dunked a biscuit into the cup of scalding tea"
• score by shooting the ball down through the basket with the hands above the rim.

dunk noun

• a shot downwards into the basket with the hands above the rim.
Origin: early 20th century: from Pennsylvanian German dunke ‘dip’, from German tunken ‘dip or plunge’.


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