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発音

• IPA: /dʌŋk/
• 韻: -ʌŋk

動詞

dunk (third-person singular simple present dunks, present participle dunking, simple past and past participle dunked)

1. (transitive) To submerge briefly in a liquid.

   I like to dunk my donut in my apple cider.

2. (transitive) To set down carelessly.

   Parents shouldn't just dunk their kids in front of the TV.

3. (ambitransitive, basketball) To put the ball directly downward through the hoop while grabbing onto the rim with power.

   The center spun quickly and dunked the ball with authority.

4. (intransitive, Internet slang) To put down on social media [with on].

派生語

名詞

dunk (plural dunks)

1. The act or instance of dunking, particularly in basketball.

   The point guard threaded a pass with pinpoint precision to the power forward for an easy dunk.

   She gave the biscuit a dunk in her cup of milk.

   • 2009 August 18, Natalie Angier, “Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop”, in New York Times‎:

     To rattle the rats to the point where their stress response remained demonstrably hyperactive, the researchers exposed the animals to four weeks of varying stressors: moderate electric shocks, being encaged with dominant rats, prolonged dunks in water.

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