dunker
dunker Lexical Profile
dunker Game Scores & Validity
• noun
A basketball player who scores by leaping high into the air and slamming the ball directly down through the hoop.
"The rookie forward quickly earned a reputation as the most electrifying dunker in the league."
A person who dips food, such as a biscuit, doughnut, or cookie, into a beverage before eating it, or a baked good well suited for dipping.
"My grandfather was a habitual dunker who never ate a plain doughnut without a mug of hot coffee."
American A member of the Church of the Brethren or a related German Baptist denomination that practices baptism by triple immersion (usually capitalized).
"The historic stone meetinghouse was built by nineteenth-century Dunkers who settled in the Pennsylvania valley."
• Rhymes for dunker
Word Origin & Etymology
Formed in American English from the verb 'dunk', which was borrowed from the Pennsylvania German word 'dunke' (to dip), alongside the agentive suffix '-er'. In its capitalized religious sense referring to the Church of the Brethren, it translates the German 'Tunker', named for their practice of baptism by triple immersion.