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dunking

noun

Meaning

  1. 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. Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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