slam dunk

See also: slamdunk and slam-dunk

English

Alternative forms

• slam-dunk, slamdunk

Pronunciation

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Noun

slam dunk (plural slam dunks)

1. (basketball) An impressively forceful dunk.
2. (colloquial, idiomatic) A task expected to present no difficulty, a piece of cake.

   As long as you get the vice president's approval first, it'll be a slam dunk.

3. (yachting) Tacking on top of the wind of the following yacht in close quarters

Synonyms

• dunk shot; over-the-rim shot
• See also Thesaurus:easy thing

Derived terms

• slam dunk approach

Translations

impressively forceful dunk

• Arabic: رَمْيَة سَاحِقَة f (ramya(t) sāḥiqa), سْلَام دَانْك (slām dānk)
• Catalan: esmaixada (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 入樽 (jap⁶ zeon¹)

  Mandarin: 扣籃 / 扣篮 (zh) (kòulán), 灌籃 / 灌篮 (zh) (guànlán), 入樽 (zh) (rùzūn)

• Finnish: donkkaus
• Hungarian: zsákolás (hu)

Verb

slam dunk (third-person singular simple present slam dunks, present participle slam dunking, simple past and past participle slam dunked)

1. To perform a slam dunk.