If you say that something is a slam dunk, you mean that a success or victory will be easily achieved.
[informal]
So it's an easy decision. It's a slam dunk.
2. countable noun
In basketball, a slam dunk is a shot in which a player jumps up and forces the ball through the basket.
...a series of spectacular slam dunks.
slam dunk in British English
noun
1. basketball
a scoring shot in which a player jumps up and forces the ball down through the basket
2. informal
a task so easy that success in it is deemed a certainty
verbslam-dunk
3. basketball
to jump up and force (a ball) through a basket
4. (transitive) US informal
to defeat decisively
You are the best. You have slam-dunked everyone in this pool.
slam-dunk in British English
(ˌslæmˈdʌŋk)
verb(transitive)
1. basketball
to jump up and force a ball through a basket
2. US informal
to defeat decisively
You are the best. You have slam-dunked everyone in this pool.
3. US informal
to push something or someone somewhere with great force
There was a time when he'd have swooped into your shop, slam-dunked the muffin intohis coat pocket, balanced the change on top of your head and been out of there.
'How did you get her off?'—'I slam-dunked the security officer.'
slam-dunk in American English
(ˈslæmˈdʌŋk)
Basketball
noun
1.
a dunk shot in which the ball is slammed through the basket
verb transitive
2.
to slam (the ball) through the basket
Examples of 'slam dunk' in a sentence
slam dunk
"This is not going to be a slam-dunk ," he told the McKennas, "but we are going to come out of here just fine.