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dunk shot

noun as in basketball shot that is slammed down

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When he hit 100 on a dunk shot with 46 seconds left, the fans streamed out onto the court to mob him.

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But these looked more like pledges to the fraternity in the championship, as the Wolfpack controlled the tempo from Thurl Bailey’s first basket - ironically, on a dunk shot.

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Sanders faked Art, wheeled around him, and soared up high for a dunk shot.

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Microsoft’s implied system sales have been solid, but the console needs a holiday dunk shot beyond recycled Halo — and it definitely has one in Insomniac Games’ magnificent Sunset Overdrive.

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

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