/dʌŋk/

dunk

BrE /dʌŋk/

NAmE /dʌŋk/

[T]

~ sth (in/into sth)

to put food quickly into liquid before eating it

She sat reading a magazine, dunking cookies in her coffee.

[T]

~ sb/sth

(especially NAmE)

to push sb underwater for a short time, as a joke; to put sth into water

The camera survived being dunked in the river.

[I, T]

~ (sth)

(in basketball )

to jump very high and put the ball through the basket with great force from above