"dunk" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /dʌŋk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dunk.wav Forms: dunks [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌŋk Etymology: From Pennsylvania German dunke, from Middle High German dunken, from Old High German dunkōn (“to dip, submerge, dunk”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunkōn (“to make wet”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *þunkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to moisten, wet”). Cognate with German tunken (“to dunk”), Latin tingō (“to wet, moisten”), Ancient Greek τέγγω (téngō, “to wet, moisten”). Related to taint, tincture, tint. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|pdc|dunke}} Pennsylvania German dunke, {{der|en|gmh|dunken}} Middle High German dunken, {{der|en|goh|dunkōn||to dip, submerge, dunk}} Old High German dunkōn (“to dip, submerge, dunk”), {{der|en|gmw-pro|*þunkōn||to make wet}} Proto-West Germanic *þunkōn (“to make wet”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*þunkōną}} Proto-Germanic *þunkōną, {{der|en|ine-pro|*teng-||to moisten, wet}} Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to moisten, wet”), {{cog|de|tunken||to dunk}} German tunken (“to dunk”), {{cog|la|tingō||to wet, moisten}} Latin tingō (“to wet, moisten”), {{cog|grc|τέγγω||to wet, moisten}} Ancient Greek τέγγω (téngō, “to wet, moisten”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} dunk (plural dunks)
  1. The act or instance of dunking, particularly in basketball. Derived forms: dunkfest, dunk shot, dunk tank, mosquito dunk, reverse dunk, slam dunk, thunderdunk Related terms: alley oop, jam, slam Translations (basketball dunking): رَمْيَة سَاحِقَة (alt: ramya(t) sāḥiqa) [feminine] (Arabic), забивка (zabivka) (Bulgarian), esmaixada [feminine] (Catalan), 扣籃 /扣篮 (kòulán) (Chinese Mandarin), 灌籃 /灌篮 (guànlán) (Chinese Mandarin), smeč (Czech), donkkaus (english: act or instance) (Finnish), donkki (english: instance) (Finnish), κάρφωμα (kárfoma) [neuter] (Greek), schiacciata [feminine] (Italian), 덩크 (deongkeu) (Korean), 덩크 슛 (deongkeu syut) (Korean), 꽂아넣기 (kkojaneoki) [North-Korea] (Korean), enterrada [feminine] (Portuguese), данк (dank) [masculine] (Russian), mate [masculine] (Spanish), donqueo [Honduras, masculine] (Spanish), volcada [feminine] (Spanish), clavada [feminine] (Spanish), machaque [masculine] (Spanish), chapuz [masculine] (Spanish), chapuzón [masculine] (Spanish), capuz [masculine] (Spanish), smaç (Turkish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dunkable, dunker

Verb

IPA: /dʌŋk/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dunk.wav Forms: dunks [present, singular, third-person], dunking [participle, present], dunked [participle, past], dunked [past]
Rhymes: -ʌŋk Etymology: From Pennsylvania German dunke, from Middle High German dunken, from Old High German dunkōn (“to dip, submerge, dunk”), from Proto-West Germanic *þunkōn (“to make wet”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *þunkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to moisten, wet”). Cognate with German tunken (“to dunk”), Latin tingō (“to wet, moisten”), Ancient Greek τέγγω (téngō, “to wet, moisten”). Related to taint, tincture, tint. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|pdc|dunke}} Pennsylvania German dunke, {{der|en|gmh|dunken}} Middle High German dunken, {{der|en|goh|dunkōn||to dip, submerge, dunk}} Old High German dunkōn (“to dip, submerge, dunk”), {{der|en|gmw-pro|*þunkōn||to make wet}} Proto-West Germanic *þunkōn (“to make wet”), {{der|en|gem-pro|*þunkōną}} Proto-Germanic *þunkōną, {{der|en|ine-pro|*teng-||to moisten, wet}} Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to moisten, wet”), {{cog|de|tunken||to dunk}} German tunken (“to dunk”), {{cog|la|tingō||to wet, moisten}} Latin tingō (“to wet, moisten”), {{cog|grc|τέγγω||to wet, moisten}} Ancient Greek τέγγω (téngō, “to wet, moisten”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} dunk (third-person singular simple present dunks, present participle dunking, simple past and past participle dunked)
  1. (transitive) To submerge briefly in a liquid. Tags: transitive Translations (to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip): потапям (potapjam) (Bulgarian), dyppa (Faroese), dýva (Faroese), kastaa (Finnish), tunken (German), eintunken (German), βουτώ (voutó) (Greek), márt (Hungarian), mártogat (Hungarian), tunkol (Hungarian), celup (Malay), kōpiro (note: for fermentation) (Maori), zanurzać [imperfective] (Polish), zanurzyć [perfective] (Polish), molhar (Portuguese), мака́ть (makátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), мокну́ть (moknútʹ) (english: to dip) [perfective] (Russian), окуна́ть (okunátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), окуну́ть (okunútʹ) (english: to submerge, to plunge) [perfective] (Russian), зама́чивать (zamáčivatʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), замочи́ть (zamočítʹ) (english: to soak) [perfective] (Russian), douk (Scots), chapuzar (Spanish), capuzar (Spanish), zapuzar (Spanish), doppa (Swedish)
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  2. (transitive) To set down carelessly. Tags: transitive
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  3. (ambitransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power. Tags: ambitransitive Translations (basketball): забивам (zabivam) (Bulgarian), esmaixar (Catalan), hansak (Cebuano), 入樽 (jap⁶ zeon¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 扣籃 /扣篮 (kòulán) (Chinese Mandarin), 灌籃 /灌篮 (guànlán) (Chinese Mandarin), smeč (Czech), donkata (Finnish), καρφώνω (karfóno) (Greek), pākī (Hawaiian), zsákol (Hungarian), schiacciata [feminine] (Italian), wsad [masculine] (Polish), enterrar (Portuguese), machacar (Spanish), hacer un mate (Spanish), donquear [Latin-America] (Spanish), dunka (Swedish), smaç basmak (Turkish)
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  4. (intransitive, Internet slang) To put down on social media [with on]. Tags: Internet, intransitive Translations (social media): hejtować [imperfective] (Polish), zhejtować [perfective] (Polish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: dunkable, dunker, dunk on, dunk out

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To submerge briefly in a liquid."
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
          "word": "márt"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
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          "word": "mártogat"
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
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          "word": "tunkol"
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          "lang": "Malay",
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          "word": "celup"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "note": "for fermentation",
          "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
          "word": "kōpiro"
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "zanurzać"
        },
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          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
          "word": "molhar"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "makátʹ",
          "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "мака́ть"
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          "english": "to dip",
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          "roman": "moknútʹ",
          "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
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          "word": "мокну́ть"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "okunátʹ",
          "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "окуна́ть"
        },
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          "code": "ru",
          "english": "to submerge, to plunge",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "okunútʹ",
          "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "окуну́ть"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 5 5 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zamáčivatʹ",
          "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "зама́чивать"
        },
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          "english": "to soak",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zamočítʹ",
          "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "замочи́ть"
        },
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          "_dis1": "87 5 5 3",
          "code": "sco",
          "lang": "Scots",
          "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
          "word": "douk"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "87 5 5 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
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        "(ambitransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power."
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        "To put down on social media [with on]."
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        "(intransitive, Internet slang) To put down on social media [with on]."
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "potapjam",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "потапям"
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    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "dyppa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fo",
      "lang": "Faroese",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "dýva"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "kastaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "tunken"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "eintunken"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "voutó",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "βουτώ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "márt"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "mártogat"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "tunkol"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "celup"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "note": "for fermentation",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "kōpiro"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "zanurzać"
    },
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "zanurzyć"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "molhar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "makátʹ",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "мака́ть"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "english": "to dip",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "moknútʹ",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "мокну́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "okunátʹ",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "окуна́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "to submerge, to plunge",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "okunútʹ",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "окуну́ть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
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      "roman": "zamáčivatʹ",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "зама́чивать"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "english": "to soak",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zamočítʹ",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "sco",
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      "word": "douk"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "chapuzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "capuzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "zapuzar"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to submerge briefly in a liquid — see also dip",
      "word": "doppa"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "zabivam",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "забивам"
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    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "esmaixar"
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      "code": "ceb",
      "lang": "Cebuano",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "hansak"
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    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "roman": "jap⁶ zeon¹",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "入樽"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kòulán",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "扣籃 /扣篮"
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    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "guànlán",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "灌籃 /灌篮"
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    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "smeč"
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "donkata"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "karfóno",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "καρφώνω"
    },
    {
      "code": "haw",
      "lang": "Hawaiian",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "pākī"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "zsákol"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "schiacciata"
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "wsad"
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "enterrar"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "machacar"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "hacer un mate"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "donquear"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "dunka"
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    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "basketball",
      "word": "smaç basmak"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "social media",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "hejtować"
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    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "social media",
      "tags": [
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    "Terms with Malay translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
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      "word": "dunkable"
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      "word": "dunker"
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      "word": "dunkfest"
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    {
      "word": "dunk shot"
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    {
      "word": "dunk tank"
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      "word": "mosquito dunk"
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      "word": "reverse dunk"
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          "ref": "2009 August 18, Natalie Angier, “Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop”, in New York Times:",
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      "alt": "ramya(t) sāḥiqa",
      "code": "ar",
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      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "رَمْيَة سَاحِقَة"
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      "code": "bg",
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      "roman": "zabivka",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "word": "забивка"
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "basketball dunking",
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      "word": "esmaixada"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "kòulán",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "word": "扣籃 /扣篮"
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      "sense": "basketball dunking",
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "word": "smeč"
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      "code": "fi",
      "english": "act or instance",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "word": "donkkaus"
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      "code": "fi",
      "english": "instance",
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      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "word": "donkki"
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      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kárfoma",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "κάρφωμα"
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "schiacciata"
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    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "deongkeu",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "word": "덩크"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "deongkeu syut",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "word": "덩크 슛"
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    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "kkojaneoki",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "꽂아넣기"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "enterrada"
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dank",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "данк"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "mate"
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    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "tags": [
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        "masculine"
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      "word": "donqueo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "volcada"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "clavada"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "machaque"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chapuz"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chapuzón"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "capuz"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "basketball dunking",
      "word": "smaç"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dunk"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-20 using wiktextract (3dadd05 and f1c2b61). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.