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Princeton's WordNet
slam dunknoun
something that is a sure to occur; a foregone conclusion
"predicting his success was a slam dunk"
slam dunkverb
a forceful dunk
slam-dunkverb
make a forceful move against
"the electronic travel market is slam-dunking traditional travel agencies"
slam-dunkverb
make a slam dunk; shoot a basketball in a slam dunk
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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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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of slam-dunk in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of slam-dunk in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of slam-dunk in a Sentence
That's as close to a smoking gun or a slam dunk as you'll ever come, but you're never going use that terminology per se.
Don't think that this is going to be a slam dunk, even though you have a video, i had a video for the whole world to see and they still didn't indict any cops in my son's case.
Not a slam dunk, but we’re confident that we can win on the federal court level.
If Joe Biden think that trade union support is a slam dunk, they are sorely mistaken, as for Joe Biden, I am not sure where Joe Biden is on these issues. Haven't seen Joe Biden a long time.
I actually dont think that November is any form of a slam dunk because the reality is its still five months away.
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