dunk
verb /dʌŋk/
/dʌŋk/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they dunk | /dʌŋk/ /dʌŋk/ |
| he / she / it dunks | /dʌŋks/ /dʌŋks/ |
| past simple dunked | /dʌŋkt/ /dʌŋkt/ |
| past participle dunked | /dʌŋkt/ /dʌŋkt/ |
| -ing form dunking | /ˈdʌŋkɪŋ/ /ˈdʌŋkɪŋ/ |
- [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.
- [transitive] dunk somebody/something (especially North American English) to push somebody underwater for a short time, as a joke; to put something into water
- The camera survived being dunked in the river.
- [intransitive, transitive] dunk (something) (in basketball) to jump very high and put the ball through the basket with great force from above see also slam-dunkTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
Word Originearly 20th cent.: from Pennsylvanian German dunke ‘dip’, from German tunken ‘dip or plunge’.