- 1[transitive] dunk something (in/into something) to put food quickly into liquid before eating it She sat reading a magazine, dunking cookies in her coffee.
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- 2[transitive] dunk somebody/something to push someone underwater for a short time, as a joke; to put something into water The camera survived being dunked in the river.
- 3[intransitive, transitive] dunk (something) (in basketball) to jump very high and put the ball through the basket with great force from above
dunk
verbNAmE//dʌŋk//
Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they dunk he / she / it dunks
past simple dunked
-ing form dunking
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