ping-pong

[ ping-pong, -pawng ]

verb (used with object)
  1. to move back and forth or transfer rapidly from one locale, job, etc., to another; switch: The patient was ping-ponged from one medical specialist to another.

verb (used without object)
  1. to go back and forth; change rapidly or regularly; shift; bounce: For ten years the foreign correspondent ping-ponged between London and Paris.

Origin of ping-pong

1
First recorded in 1900–05

Other definitions for Ping-Pong (2 of 2)

Ping-Pong
[ ping-pong, -pawng ]

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How to use ping-pong in a sentence

  • Think of wastin' all them letters,20 when just plain Piddie is as good as seein' a strip of pingpong pictures of him!

    Torchy | Sewell Ford
  • Idrayib (drayba) ug kusug ang pingpung, Slam the pingpong ball.

British Dictionary definitions for Ping-Pong

Ping-Pong

/ (ˈpɪŋˌpɒŋ) /


noun
  1. trademark another name for table tennis Also called: ping pong

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