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Wiktionary

  1. v. present participle of dunk.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. basketball Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.

Examples

  • “Weekly Standard blogger Michael Goldfarb want to call torturers 'American heroes' and make light of waterboarding by calling it 'dunking' - ought to believe in making its use widespread.”

    Rational Review

  • “Pacino is led into it for his baptism, and the dunking is a violent spasm, as if the attendants want to drown him instead.”

    The Washington Post: 'Merchant of Venice': Al Pacino's Shylock is a moving take on an immovable man

  • “Others held Oreo-themed basketball games to reinforce the idea of dunking cookies in milk.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Kraft Reformulates Oreo,

  • “Vice President Dick Cheney on the defensive after calling the dunking of a terror suspect a no - brainer.”

    CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2006

  • “And don't blow a lung over the "dunking" hockey mix-up; if it weren't for the sporty friends in my life, I wouldn't even be able to tell a baseball from a tennis ball...truthfully and honestly.”

    Sobering Celebrations

  • “It was a nice expository touch, since back when I went to high school, we had maybe one guy who looked like that. moriarty6 tried to give the story a bit too much credit, I think, when he suggested that the swimming trials were a corollary to the "dunking" witch tests from ye olden days.”

    The Covenant

  • “They thought waterboarding or "dunking" as they quaintly called it, would prove if someone were a witch or a warlock.”

    Bush, Cheney, Gonzo, Bill-O Set to Prove Torture Works on Live TV

  • “Now, I don't know what other kind of "dunking" there is.”

    CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2006

  • “Pluggers: Baby Plugger, you should know by now that the only "dunking" a big Plugger will do involves coffee and a baker's dozen donuts or milk and a bag of Double Stuf Oreos.”

    Blogtimore, Hon

  • “But let's entertain your proposition - some wingnuts have disregarded waterboarding as nothing more than "dunking," or "splashing.”

    Think Progress

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