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Princeton's WordNet

  1. slam dunknoun

    something that is a sure to occur; a foregone conclusion

    "predicting his success was a slam dunk"

  2. slam dunkverb

    a forceful dunk

  3. slam-dunkverb

    make a forceful move against

    "the electronic travel market is slam-dunking traditional travel agencies"

  4. slam-dunkverb

    make a slam dunk; shoot a basketball in a slam dunk

Wikipedia

  1. slam-dunk

    Slam Dunk (stylized as SLAM DUNK) is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Takehiko Inoue. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from October 1990 to June 1996, with the chapters collected into 31 tankōbon volumes. It tells the story of a basketball team from Shōhoku High School in the Shōnan area of Japan. The manga was adapted into an anime television series by Toei Animation which aired from October 1993 to March 1996 and has been broadcast worldwide, enjoying much popularity particularly in Japan, several other Asian countries and Europe. Slam Dunk has 170 million copies in circulation, making it the seventh best-selling manga series in history. In 1994, it received the 40th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category. In 2010, Inoue received special commendations from the Japan Basketball Association for helping popularize basketball in Japan.

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  1. slam-dunk

    A slam-dunk is a term primarily used in basketball, referring to a shot in which a player jumps up and pushes the ball forcefully down through the net from above the rim. For a shot to be considered a slam-dunk, the player's hand must be at or above the level of the rim while shooting. This term is also used figuratively in various fields to denote a sure or certain thing, or an action that is easily accomplished.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of slam-dunk in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of slam-dunk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of slam-dunk in a Sentence

  1. John Larsen:

    We can't say for sure this will make it a slam dunk for EPA to do all the things they've got to do to get to the target, but it's got to make it easier.

  2. Akila Radhakrishnan:

    Get ready for a long haul as you're talking two to three years, this is not a slam dunk case.

  3. Maureen Ferguson:

    There's a well-founded hope that The Supreme Court will overturn Roe, or at least allow far more leeway to the state in terms of sending abortion policy, so I think people here are hopeful, but I don't think anyone's considering this to be a slam dunk.

  4. Mark Ramseyer:

    There are very few prosecutors in Japan. They are massively overworked. Given the workload, they focus first on the slam dunk, guilty-as-sin cases. They don't have time for the' maybe he did it, maybe he didn't cases,'.

  5. Brian Turmail:

    This is the worst kind of populism, given the fact that this administration has been aggressively pursuing sanctuary cities, this seems like an easy slam dunk.


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