Meaning of Dunk | Babel Free

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

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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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