Meaning

noun a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket

verb immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate

verb make a dunk shot, in basketball

originFrom Pennsylvania German dunke, from Middle High German dunken, from Old High German dunkōn (“to dip, submerge, dunk”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunkōn (“to make wet”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *þunkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to moisten, wet”). Cognate with German tunken (“to dunk”), Latin tingō (“to wet, moisten”), Ancient Greek τέγγω (téngō, “to wet, moisten”). Related to…

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