dunk out
English edit
Verb edit
dunk out (third-person singular simple present dunks out, present participle dunking out, simple past and past participle dunked out)
- (transitive) To extinguish (a flame or lit cigarette) by dunking it into a liquid.
- 1998, William Hoffman, Tidewater Blood:
- "They'll stall," Walt said and dunked out his cigarette.
- Misconstruction of dump out (“empty a container by turning its contents out over a surface”)
- Misconstruction of duck out