1 [VN] ~ sth (in / into sth) to put food quickly into liquid before eating it:
She sat reading a magazine, dunking cookies in her coffee.
2 [VN] (especially AmE) to push sb underwater for a short time, as a joke; to put sth into water:
The camera survived being dunked in the river.
3 [V, VN] (in basketball) to jump very high and put the ball through the basket with great force from above
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is dunk a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, dunk is tagged as verb.
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