dunks

Meaning of dunks

verb, 3rd person present
  1. dip (bread or other food) into a drink or soup before eating it.
    I dunked a biscuit into the cup of scalding tea
  2. score by shooting the ball down through the basket with the hands above the rim.

plural noun

a shot downwards into the basket with the hands above the rim.

early 20th century: from Pennsylvanian German dunke ‘dip’, from German tunken ‘dip or plunge’.

Information about dunks

  • The singular form of dunks is: dunk.
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Hyphenation of dunks

dunks

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • dunks is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Words that rhyme with dunks

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