1. A basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket
   "The crowd went wild after his powerful dunk";
   - dunk shot, stuff shot, slam dunk

1. Immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
   "dunk the garment into the cleaning solution";
   - dip, souse, plunge, douse
    
2. (of food) put into a liquid to absorb some of it
   "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce";
   - dip
    
3. (basketball) make a dunk shot, in basketball
   "He dunked the ball"

Derived forms: dunks, dunking, dunked

Type of: basketball shot, immerse, plunge, shoot, shot

Encyclopedia: Dunk, Queensland