Word info Synonyms Antonyms

dunking

Speech parts

1. dunking - Noun

2. dunking - Verb

Meaning

dunking

present participle of dunk

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.

(basketball) Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

Show all synonyms

Antonyms

Phrases with the word

Examples

I used slam dunking as a tool for intimidation. Dominique Wilkins

I'm not going to put my energy into dunking every time I get the ball. That's stupid. Andrew Bogut

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. Hugh Hefner

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. James Hillman

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger. Kevin Hart

There are lots of things that I will probably never experience in this life. Military combat. Being dictator of a small central American country. Dunking a basketball. Being a famous rock star. Or walking on Mars. But one thing I have been, and will always be, is an entrepreneur. Michael Arrington

Close letter words and terms