“Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni switched rookie Iman Shumpert, the dunker, onto Calderon.”
“The other varieties would include both the flamboyant dunker and the timid one who tries to dunk on the sly.”
“I had a brand new up-chit in hand, and the dunker was the only hurdle between me and the cockpit.”
dunking
The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool.
(basketball) Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above.