| Noun | 1. | dunk - a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basketbasketball shot - throwing the basketball toward the hoop; "his shot hit the rim and bounced out" | |
| Verb | 1. | dunk - immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint"sop - dip into liquid; "sop bread into the sauce" immerse, plunge - thrust or throw into; "Immerse yourself in hot water" douse, duck, dip - dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool" dabble - dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid | |
| 2. | dunk - make a dunk shot, in basketball; "He dunked the ball"basketball, basketball game, hoops - a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the basketball through an elevated horizontal hoop shoot - throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball" slam-dunk - make a slam dunk; shoot a basketball in a slam dunk | |
| 3. | dunk - dip into a liquid while eating; "She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce"eat - take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" | |