Usually means: Slamming a basketball through hoop.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. dunk: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dunk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dunk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dunk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dunk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dunk, dunk: Wordnik
  7. dunk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Dunk, dunk: Wiktionary
  9. dunk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dunk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dunk: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dunk: Dictionary.com
  13. dunk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dunk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Dunk (biscuit), Dunk (elephant), Dunk (mascot), Dunk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. dunk: Rhymezone
  17. dunk: Free Dictionary
  18. dunk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. dunk: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dunk (disambiguation), dunk: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dunk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dunk: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dunk: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dunk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Dunk, dunk, the dunk: Urban Dictionary

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. dunk: Golfer's Dictionary
  4. Dunk: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See dunked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To submerge briefly in a liquid.
verb:  (transitive) To set down carelessly.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power.
verb:  (intransitive, Internet slang) To put down on social media [with on].
noun:  The act or instance of dunking, particularly in basketball.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A locality in Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia, which includes the Family Islands; one is Dunk Island, named after George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax.

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