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pong

[ pong, pawng ]

noun

  1. an unpleasant smell; stink.


verb (used without object)

  1. to have a disagreeable smell; stink.

pong

/ pɒŋ /

noun

  1. a disagreeable or offensive smell; stink
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


verb

  1. intr to give off an unpleasant smell; stink
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈpongy, adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pong1

First recorded in 1915–20; of obscure origin
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Word History and Origins

Origin of pong1

C20: perhaps from Romany pan to stink
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Example Sentences

Per Kaplowitz, flexibility is the new currency in the workplace and it’ll be benefits like the ones offered at Jennifer Bett Communications, not ping pong tables or unlimited beer, that’ll help marketing and media weather the Great Resignation.

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That’s easier to do in an office where businesses in tech for example might have a ping pong table, a slide, or even free food.

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Ping pong tables are simple and quick to set up, move, and store, and can endure the elements.

Cosmos is a way to bring back that human connection we lack when we spend all day online, by providing a virtual world where you can play a game of trivia or pong after work with colleagues or gather round a table to celebrate a friend’s birthday.

There, bacteria get busy breaking it down and, thus, the pong.

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.

The Ping-Pong stadium was a tiny isolated bubble of bounty in the middle of a country shocked into silence.

The Chinese public had waited so long for their Ping-Pong Spring that they bellowed constant approval of the rout.

While other countries regarded ping pong as a sporting after-thought, the Chinese were about to make it their centerpiece.

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?

I had Pong get out the blankets for you, seeing that you have only your slickers with you.

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