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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Basketball A dramatic forceful dunk shot.
  • noun Slang Something that is easy to accomplish or certain to occur.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun basketball An impressively forceful dunk.
  • noun colloquial, idiomatic A task expected to present no difficulty.
  • noun yachting Tacking on top of the wind of the following yacht in close quarters
  • verb To perform a slam dunk.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a forceful dunk
  • noun something that is a sure to occur; a foregone conclusion

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