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[ ping -pong, -pawng ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈpɪŋˌpɒŋ, -ˌpɔŋ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
Informal .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.
Origin of ping-pong First recorded in 1900–05
Words nearby ping-pong pinfold, ping, pinger, Ping Hsin, pingo, ping-pong , pinguecula, pinguid, pinhead, pinheaded, pinhole
Definition for ping-pong (2 of 2) [ ping -pong, -pawng ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈpɪŋˌpɒŋ, -ˌpɔŋ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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Example sentences from the Web for ping-pong Anyone with the intellect of a ping-pong ball should understand how opportunistic that whistleblowing looks.
An Ivy League Frat Boy’s Shallow Repentance | Stefan Beck| November 24, 2014| DAILY BEAST
The Ping-Pong stadium was a tiny isolated bubble of bounty in the middle of a country shocked into silence.
How to Hide a Famine with Ping-Pong | Nicholas Griffin| January 9, 2014| DAILY BEAST
The Chinese public had waited so long for their Ping-Pong Spring that they bellowed constant approval of the rout.
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Who would have thought a game of ping-pong could have such huge ramifications in China in 1971?
The Irish Sports Betting Company Sending Dennis Rodman to North Korea | Tom Sykes| December 19, 2013| DAILY BEAST
In my library/study/barn there is a Ping-Pong table, on which I can pile working books and spread maps.
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While we read and write, play at politics or ping-pong , this woman and myriads like her are doing the essential work of the world.
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At the top of the plate is the beginning of a ping-pong net.
The Child's Rainy Day Book | Mary White
There was light talk of a deputation to the dike, followed by the resignation of travellers, cards afterward, and ping-pong .
The Daughter of a Magnate | Frank H. Spearman
I'll never fergit ther misery on ther face o' Ping-pong when he finds it out.
Ted Strong's Motor Car | Edward C. Taylor
We find that this ring loaded with only the ping-pong ball, and weighing a total of 2.55 grams does not slip at the low angles.
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British Dictionary definitions for ping-pong noun trademark another name for table tennis Also called: ping pong
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