1823 New Monthly Mag. 8 502 [In Devon Dialect] To-day have I dealt thee a pong in the midriff.

1843 W. M. Thackeray Mr. & Mrs. Berry (1888) 294 As quick as thought, and with all his might and main—pong! he delivered a blow upon old Biggs' nose.

1896 Daily Chron. 25 Aug. 3/5 The deafening ‘pong’ of the Hotchkiss strikes on the jaded ear.

1902 Oxnard (Calif.) Courier 18 Oct. 8/2 Most any week night one can hear the pinging, pinging, pinging, of the pong, pong, pong.

1912 G. K. Chesterton Manalive ii. 41 Suddenly there came from the darkening garden a silvery ping and pong which told them that Rosamund had brought out the long-neglected mandoline.

1993 D. Sheff Game Over vii. 135 He named it ‘Pong’, after the sonar-like ‘pongs’ that sounded each time the ball made contact with the battle.

1976 Washington Post 19 Apr. a15/2 (advt.) Now the whole family can play the new & exciting pong on your home TV.

1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 16 June 11- c/6 (advt.) The new amusement machine, Pachinco, is sweeping the country like the pong games did five years ago.

1978 Chicago June 36/1 Game room with pong and pinball machines used by neighborhood folks.

2000 S. Poole Trigger Happy ii. 33 ‘Avoid missing ball for high score’ ran the only line of instructions on Pong's cabinet. It was a very simple version of tennis. A square dot of light represented the ball, and two vertical lines at each side of the screen were the bats. Players only had to use one hand to rotate the paddle control, thus facilitating simultaneous beer consumption. The first Pong machine..was set up in..a California pool bar.

1900 Marvel 21 Dec. 15 The pong of fride addocks.

1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 38 Pong,..stink.

1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 226 Pong, a stink.

1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxiv. 257 Avoid the smell of camel. They were complete with permanent, pyramid, and perfume, commonly called pong.

1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 56 Ponk, a stink. As verb, to stink.

1957 J. Braine Room at Top iv. 44 ‘What a pong,’ he said. ‘Don't know how you stand it.’

1991 D. Coupland Generation X i. i. 4 Smelling the cinnamon nighttime pong of snapdragons and efficient whiffs of swimming pool chlorine.

1906 Truth (Sydney) 28 Oct. 11/1 To-day there are 20 whites to 150 Ah Pongs.]

1910 Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Sept. 13/4 A fat, full-blooded Pong got into the compartment.

1931 V. Palmer Separate Lives 221 Blow into one of those Chow joints..and call for a dollar's worth of duck and fowl. Enough for two those pongs always give you.

1938 X. Herbert Capricornia 339 Your grandmother was a lubra and your grandfather was a Pong.

1957 D. Stivens Scholarly Mouse 65 He was too tall to be a Pong or an Eyetoe.

1962 J. Franklyn Dict. Nicknames 86/1 Pong is a nickname given to a Chinaman in Australia—punning the ong sound in some Chinese words, and pong, a bad smell.

1970 ‘B. Mather’ Break in Line i. 11 I'm the only Pong I know who wouldn't say Charling Closs.

1985 N. Medcalf Rifleman 18 Me and that Pong..I got him.

1968 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 i. 10 Pong, ping-pong.

1893 Clarion Summer 30 Ponging is a lost art... Consisting as it did, of a kind of bold free-hand dramatic sketching, Ponging had no place in an age of ‘photographic acting’. Hence we pong no more.

1894 Evening News 18 Oct. 2/6 If he expands the text he is said ‘to pong’... Why will not ‘gag’ do instead of ‘pong’?

1923 F. J. Wilstack Stage Dict. in N.Y. Times 9 Sept. vii. 2 Pong; Equivalent to expounding a part.

1958 Times 14 Oct. 3/2 Shaw, whose lines must be ‘ponged’ (given maximum projection).

1906 Marvel 29 Dec. 676 In its time many things had been tumbled into it, and each had left its flavour behind. ‘It pongs!’ said Mr. Histed.

1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 23 Things didn't smell, but ponged, niffed or hummed.

1944 ‘N. Shute’ Pastoral ii. 17 I think it looks ugly as sin, and it's starting to ponk a bit.

1950 A. Baron There's No Home i. 16 ‘It don't 'alf pong,’ he observed.

1972 P. Cleife Slick & Dead ii. 22 This loving thing could be a cover story for any old racket?.. Pongs a bit, don't you think?

1990 ‘J. Gash’ Very Last Gambado (1991) iv. 31 All barkers pong of armpit.