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dunk

verb as in dip in liquid

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Xavier Booker stepped in front of his man, rising to block a dunk.

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Double-teamed at the top of the key, James dropped a bounce pass to Jaxson Hayes, who soared for an open dunk.

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She’s the type to sweetly agree to a toddler’s request to play them in basketball, only to then cross them up and dunk on them.

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The rookie Thiero also made his debut against the Bucks, scoring four points and punctuating his first NBA appearance with an emphatic two-handed dunk in the final minute.

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He found forward Ezra Ausar under the hoop for a dunk — and with the bucket, joined Daniel Hackett in the record books as the only other Trojan to accomplish the feat.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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