“dunking does not display basketball skill - only height advantage,” Allen wrote in his 1937 book Better Basketball.
Sen. Paul has been getting a dunking in the media for his flip-flops on foreign policy.
Large, crisp, hot potato chips make a pleasant change for dunking purposes.
This is a breakfast treat especially good for dunking in coffee.
More men were ranged in rows along the plastered walls, dunking their heels against the cracked wooden baseboards.
The dunking is done as rhythmically as the stirring, guests taking regular turns at twirling the fork to keep the cheese swirling.
When everything is stirred smooth and bubbling, toss in the kirsch without missing a stroke of the fork and get to dunking.
1919, American English, from Pennsylvania German dunke "to dip," from Middle High German dunken, from Old High German dunkon, thunkon "to soak," from PIE root *teng- "to soak" (see tincture).
Basketball sense is first recorded 1937 as a verb, 1971 as a noun (earlier dunk shot). German-American Anabaptist sect of Dunkers (who baptize with triple immersion) first recorded by that name 1756.
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[fr Pennsylvania German dunken, ''dip'']
