Topic: OTHER SPORTS
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| Date: | 1900-2000 |
| Language: | Pennsylvania German |
| Origin: | dunke, from Middle High German dunken |
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dunk
1 [transitive]DF to quickly put something into a liquid and take it out again, especially something you are eating : Jill dunked her ginger biscuit in her tea. I dunked my head under the water and scrubbed at my hair.
Jill dunked her ginger biscuit in her tea.I dunked my head under the water and scrubbed at my hair.2DSS [transitive] American English to push someone under water for a short time as a joke [= duck British English]
3DSO [intransitive and transitive] to jump up by the basket and throw the ball down into it in basketball
—dunk noun [countable]
