ping-pong

[ ping-pong, -pawng ]

/ ˈpɪŋˌpɒŋ, -ˌpɔŋ /

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

pinfire, pinfish, pinfold, ping, ping hsin, ping-pong, pinger, pingo, pinguecula, pinguid, pinhead

Definition for ping-pong (2 of 2)

Ping-Pong

[ ping-pong, -pawng ]

/ ˈpɪŋˌpɒŋ, -ˌpɔŋ /

Trademark.

table tennis.

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.

How to Hide a Famine with Ping-Pong |Nicholas Griffin |January 9, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
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.

Antony Beevor: How I Write |Noah Charney |June 13, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
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.

Parenthood and Race Culture |Caleb Williams Saleeby
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.

The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays |J. (John) Joly

British Dictionary definitions for ping-pong

Ping-Pong

/ (ˈpɪŋˌpɒŋ) /

noun

trademark another name for table tennis Also called: ping pong

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