beer pong

[pong, pawng]

noun

1. a game in which two teams take turns throwing a Ping-Pong ball across a table, aiming to get it into one of the cups of beer at the opposing team's end of the table, forcing their opponents to drink the beer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of beer pong¹

First recorded in 1970–75; beer + (Ping-)Pong

Example Sentences

Carmen doesn’t nail collegespeak — “Here’s to a night we’ll never remember with the friends we’ll never forgive,” she captions her first selfie with Benny — but she’s skilled at beer pong, first-person shooters and chugging drinks like the frat boys on campus.

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The arc of the series is involved mainly with their sorting and resorting themselves into couples, however briefly, as they navigate various youth rituals and rites of passage, like beer pong and getting fake IDs.

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Greece looks ghastly in Molly Manning Walker’s riveting debut that goes from raucous to hungover and back to raucous faster than a bouncing beer pong.

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Stop bouncing him recklessly around the diamond and the batting order like he’s a centerpiece in a game of beer pong.

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The teenagers said there was a fully stocked bar with New Amsterdam vodka and Malibu rum, with the games of beer pong using hard liquor instead.

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What does beer pong mean?

Beer pong is a drinking game in which the objective is to throw a ping-pong ball into an opponent’s cups (which are full of beer). If a ball makes it into a cup, the opponent must drink the beer from that cup.How is beer pong pronounced?[beer pong]