dunk shot

dunk shot

noun Basketball.
a shot in which a player near the basket jumps with the ball and attempts to thrust it through the basket with one hand or both hands held above the rim.
Also called dunk, stuff shot.


Origin:
1965–70
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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dunk shot

noun
a basketball shot in which the basketball is propelled downward into the basket [syn: dunk
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