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Dunk   /dəŋk/   Listen
Dunk

noun
1.
A basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket.  Synonyms: dunk shot, stuff shot.



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"Dunk" Quotes from Famous Books



... opened, and a Swedish maid stood in the entrance regarding her stolidly. "I'm Miss Sumner," Shirley informed her. "This is my maid Marcelle. Help her in with the hand-baggage." She stepped into the hall and called: "Ooh-hooh! Nunky-dunk!" ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne
... as an Indian's. On the whole, if a Lina Cavalieri had happened to marry a Lord Kitchener, and had happened to have a thirty-year-old son, I feel quite sure he'd have been the dead spit, as the Irish say, of my own Duncan Argyll. And Duncan Argyll, alias Dinky-Dunk, is rather reserved and quiet and, I'm afraid, rather masterful, but not as Theobald Gustav might have been, for with all his force the modern German, it seems to me, is like the bagpipes in being ...
— The Prairie Wife • Arthur Stringer


Words linked to "Dunk" :   basketball game, basketball shot, sop, shoot, dabble, basketball, immerse, hoops, eat, dip, duck


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