to dunk on
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8.5
- phrasal verb
- /dʌŋk ɑn/
- Slang
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humillar
- He couldn't wait to dunk on all the women in the United States of America as fast as he possibly could, and he's proud of that.
- got dunked on
- going to dunk on
Because we on the left love smugly dunking on dumb ideas, right?
- Because we on the left love smugly dunking on dumb ideas, right?
- Josh says he wants to dunk on LeBron.
- And it turned into this whole thing where it was me trying to dunk on Christians or something.
- If I, if it's a lesser known shitty person that I'm cherry picking to kind of dunk on, that's fucked up.
- They certainly don't view themselves as evil, but they they have a belief system that we have to dunk on.
- When you're just dunking on bankers and putting your nuts in the mouth of Equifax and Wells Fargo, you are going ham.
- So, you know, when, when people come and dunk on me or when they're trying to attack, attack me, or when they're saying things about me, it's OK.
Examples
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So you repeating that in public to, you know, dunk on them, it's not helpful.
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The thing is, I never want to dunk on someone for being poor.
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You ever want to dunk on somebody?
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And it turned into this whole thing where it was me trying to dunk on Christians or something.
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Josh says he wants to dunk on LeBron.
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I'm going to dunk on you every day at the YMCA.
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So we never collaborated, but she would make a video and I would piece by piece go through her video and just like dunk on everything she was saying.
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So, you know, when, when people come and dunk on me or when they're trying to attack, attack me, or when they're saying things about me, it's OK.
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So you have a video and you're like strongly disagree and I can get clout by posting or dunking on someone else's idea.
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She made a clever joke that really dunked on her opponent during the debate.
Synonyms
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9.9
To say bad things about someone's ideas or work to show you do not respect them
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8.1
To tease someone in a playful way
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7.8
To beat someone or something easily by taking strong, clear action
Antonyms
How Humiliating
- Informal
557
1.7
- Offensive
414
6.1
- Slang
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8.5
- Offensive
209
3.4
701
3.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
dunk + on
The sense 'to publicly humiliate or show up someone' is a colloquial, metaphorical extension of the sports sense of 'dunk' (to slam or dominate) rather than a direct composition of literal 'dunk' (to dip) + 'on'. A B1 learner who only knows the basic, literal meanings (and not the basketball/sports slang or online usage) would not reliably infer this meaning without prior exposure, so it is partially but not fully transparent.
Etymology
Dunk on comes from basketball, where a player dunks the ball hard over an opponent so the opponent looks small and defeated. So, dunk on means 'to publicly humiliate or defeat' someone.