Dunk

Definitions

1. The act or instance of dunking, particularly in basketball.
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. A locality in Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia, which includes the Family Islands; one is Dunk Island, named after George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The point⟳ guard threaded a pass⟳ with pinpoint precision to the power forward⟳ for an easy dunk.”

“She gave the biscuit a dunk in her cup of milk.”

“To rattle the rats to the point⟳ where their stress⟳ response remained demonstrably hyperactive, the researchers exposed the animals to four weeks of varying stressors: moderate electric shocks, being encaged with dominant rats, prolonged dunks in water.”

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