ping-pong

¹

[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.

Ping-Pong

²

[ping-pong, -pawng]

Trademark.

1. table tennis.

Ping-Pong

/ ˈpɪŋˌpɒŋ /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of ping-pong¹

First recorded in 1900–05