dunking

American  

[duhng-king] / ˈdʌŋ kɪŋ /

noun

1. the action of plunging or being plunged into water or other liquid.

   Learning to canoe cost her several dunkings.

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Etymology

Origin of dunking

First recorded in 1915–20; dunk + -ing ¹

Example Sentences

Meadowlark busies herself next to me, squeezing lemon and dunking her tea bag in and out of the mug of hot water.

From Literature

Here he is dunking in 2024 before singing with the jazz band.

From Los Angeles Times

I tore through half a bottle in a week—drizzling it over salads, spooning it onto seafood, and, of course, dunking torn-up hunks of crusty French bread.

From Salon

But the dunking spawned the legend of the "Curse of the Colonel" that said the Tigers would never win another title until the effigy was recovered.

From Barron's

Pickleball may be everywhere, but it’s continuing to mature as a serious sport, and Waters is its Michael Jordan—if Michael Jordan was dunking on Naismith’s peach baskets.

From The Wall Street Journal