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Definition of Dunking
1. 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. ¹
2. Noun. (basketball) Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dunking
1. dunk [v] - See also: dunk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dunking
Literary usage of Dunking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Civil War in Song and Story: 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"The jailer dunking ner resolved to escape that nig ht. I was the one to blame
for the damage done, ! any attempt to escape, the jailer was in the ..."
2. Bermuda Alive! by Harriet Greenberg (2000)
"Less serious offenses were punished by dunking the offender in the briny.
The dunking stool is on Ordnance Island nearby. ..."
3. Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society by County Kildare Archaeological Society (1902)
"Enna gave, thee, 'twas no niggardly gift, to his own son, to dunking.'2 Thirty
yearx thou wast in his possession, ..."
4. Daily Word Problems: Student Practice Books by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers (2007)
"... Daily Word Problems Tuesday-Week The line for the dunking Machine was twice
as long as the Cake Walk line. The line for the Cake Walk was one-third the ..."
5. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville (1863)
"Variety is disappearing from the human race; the same ways of acting, dunking,
and feeling are to be met with all over the world. ..."
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