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ping-pong [ ping -pong, -pawng ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈpɪŋˌpɒŋ, -ˌpɔŋ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
Informal .
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verb (used with object)
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)
to go back and forth; change rapidly or regularly; shift; bounce: For ten years the foreign correspondent ping-ponged between London and Paris.
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Origin of ping-pong First recorded in 1900–05
Words nearby ping-pong pinfold ,
ping ,
pinger ,
Ping Hsin ,
pingo ,
ping-pong ,
pinguid ,
pinhead ,
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pinhole ,
pinhole camera
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Ping-Pong
[ ping -pong, -pawng ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈpɪŋˌpɒŋ, -ˌpɔŋ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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How to use ping-pong in a sentence Anyone with the intellect of a ping-pong ball should understand how opportunistic that whistleblowing looks.
Meanwhile, Kiev and Moscow passed the fault for the tragedy to each other, as if they were playing ping pong with the tragedy.
Air marshal Houston was careful to make it clear that, however encouraging, the ping detections were not in itself enough.
A second “ping” then put the phone in the vicinity of a shopping center in Kissimmee.
For some hours after all other communications stopped, the airplane was sending a “ping” recording its presence to a satellite.
And when the opening tone of the first line is a ping, the opening tone of the line following must be tseh, and vice versa.
Public gardens had special ping-pong tables to relieve the stress.
And, by the way, you boys haven't made the acquaintance of Pong, have you?
"Pong is as funny as his name, even if he is a Chinaman," laughed Stallings.
Pong, what are you going to give us out of the chuck wagon in the morning?
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British Dictionary definitions for ping-pong
noun
trademark another name for table tennis Also called: ping pong Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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