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• n  a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket
• v  immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
• v  make a dunk shot, in basketball
  He dunked the ball
• v  dip into a liquid while eating
  She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce

• In a game, his specialties are the "dunk" shot (in which he leaps up and rams the ball through the hoop from above) and the "backward dunk" (the same thing, but backward over .
• Still, universal health care in San Francisco isn't a slam-dunk.
• Lew does indeed dunk on occasion.

• dunk shot
• stuff shot
• dip
• souse
• plunge
• douse

News & Articles

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• Boost Mobile Presents: Avoid The Junk Dunk (Commercial)
  Boost Mobile recently dropped a humorous promotion dubbed the 'Junk Dunk,' which every basketball wants to definitely avoid.
  June 12, 2013 - Baller Status
• Impromptu U-16 national team dunk contest is one of the best you’ll ever see
  What happens when a group of the world’s most athletic 16-year-old basketball players have time to kill after a practice? Evidently they launch into a spontaneous dunk contest that could rival the best impromptu slam-offs of all-time, if not the best officially sanctioned ones. Continue reading ?
  June 11, 2013 - Prep Rally via Yahoo! Sports
• Watch: LeBron swats Splitter's dunk attempt in fourth
  Heat forward LeBron James rose high to block Spurs center Tiago Splitter on a dunk attempt at the rim during the fourth quarter of Game 2 of the 2013 NBA Finals on Sunday.
  June 10, 2013 - Sports Illustrated

Quotes

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• Isiah Thomas in Newsday
  We had surrendered,Thomas said. "Those guys shouldn't have been in the game at that point. And you know, they were sticking it to us pretty good and they were having their way with us. I think JR Smith had just made one dunk where he...
• Kobe Bryant in Bangkok Post
  I just was kind of reading the play and I was able to get my hands on it and get out and get a dunk,Bryant said of his fifth steal of the game. "As soon as it was exposed it was important for me to go after it."
• Joe Maddon in Metro Canada - Edmonton
  If he was able to be able to be seen more nationally, it would be a slam dunk,Maddon said before the game. "He toils a little bit in the obscurity of where we work. I would really not understand why he would not be voted in. He's the kind...