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dunking

Definitions

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  • verb Present participle of dunk.
  • noun 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.
  • noun basketball Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.

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Examples

  • Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb want to call torturers 'American heroes' and make light of waterboarding by calling it 'dunking' - ought to believe in making its use widespread.

    Rational Review 2009

  • Pacino is led into it for his baptism, and the dunking is a violent spasm, as if the attendants want to drown him instead.

    'Merchant of Venice': Al Pacino's Shylock is a moving take on an immovable man 2010

  • Others held Oreo-themed basketball games to reinforce the idea of dunking cookies in milk.

    Kraft Reformulates Oreo, 2008

  • Vice President Dick Cheney on the defensive after calling the dunking of a terror suspect a no - brainer.

    CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2006 2006

  • And don't blow a lung over the "dunking" hockey mix-up; if it weren't for the sporty friends in my life, I wouldn't even be able to tell a baseball from a tennis ball...truthfully and honestly.

    Sobering Celebrations 2010

  • It was a nice expository touch, since back when I went to high school, we had maybe one guy who looked like that. moriarty6 tried to give the story a bit too much credit, I think, when he suggested that the swimming trials were a corollary to the "dunking" witch tests from ye olden days.

    The Covenant moriarty6 2006

  • They thought waterboarding or "dunking" as they quaintly called it, would prove if someone were a witch or a warlock.

    Bush, Cheney, Gonzo, Bill-O Set to Prove Torture Works on Live TV 2007

  • Now, I don't know what other kind of "dunking" there is.

    CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2006 2006

  • Pluggers: Baby Plugger, you should know by now that the only "dunking" a big Plugger will do involves coffee and a baker's dozen donuts or milk and a bag of Double Stuf Oreos.

    Blogtimore, Hon comics 2010

  • But let's entertain your proposition - some wingnuts have disregarded waterboarding as nothing more than "dunking," or "splashing."

    Think Progress 2009

  • dunking is in social media a particular (ab)use of quote posts, popularized using Twitter's quote tweet feature, to quote a post with a comment intended to at a minimum refute the quoted post, though often to also mock or otherwise denigrate, sometimes in an attempt to appear wittier and garner more reactions (likes and reposts).

    dunking - IndieWeb 2022

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