dunking

Meanings

Plural: dunkings

Verb

• immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
• make a dunk shot, in basketball
• dip into a liquid while eating
• present participle and gerund of dunk

Noun

• The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool.
• Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.

Synonyms

dip, douse, dunk, plunge, souse