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

Example Sentences

They were standing in broad daylight in a Brooklyn park playing the “ping pong shake,” a game in which they were to shake ping-pong balls out of an empty Kleenex box strapped to their waist.

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Megan Kaczanowski’s group, of twerking and ping-pong ball fame, also crossed paths with the police this year.

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Think blindfolded obstacle courses, pool noodle wars—and the ping-pong ball game.

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If the Lords do pass amendments that Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP who is bringing the bill, does not agree with, she could try to overturn them in the Commons before it returns to the Lords for a second time, a process known as ping-pong.

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"Chinese cuisine," he says, "may just be the new ping-pong diplomacy."

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