verb
Internet Slang
dunking
· verb · internet
Mocking someone's bad post via quote-tweet, usually for laughs and clout.
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Definitions
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Publicly mocking a stupid or wrong tweet by quote-tweeting it with a one-liner that gets all the engagement. The original poster becomes the prop; you become the timeline's main character for ten minutes.
“Every blue check on the site was dunking on his pizza-with-ketchup tweet.”
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Noun form: the act or product of doing this — 'a dunk' is a particularly clean mockery.
“That reply was a clean dunk, 40K likes in an hour.”
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dunking In A Sentence
Every blue check on the site was dunking on his pizza-with-ketchup tweet.
That reply was a clean dunk, 40K likes in an hour.
Origin & Usage
Basketball metaphor — slamming the ball through the hoop — that crossed over to Twitter culture in the mid-2010s as quote-tweets became the standard mockery format.
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