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ping-pong
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun ping-pong has 1 sense
- ping-pong(n = noun.act) table tennis - a game (trademark Ping-Pong) resembling tennis but played on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball; Array is a kind of table game
CIDE DICTIONARY
ping-pong, n. [Imitative.].
- An indoor modification of lawn tennis played with small bats, or battledores, and a very light, hollow, celluloid ball, on a large table divided across the middle by a net. Also called
table tennis . [Webster 1913 Suppl.] - A size of photograph a little larger than a postage stamp. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
ping-pong, v. i.
- To play ping-pong. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- to bounce back and forth, in the manner of a ping-pong ball. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ping-pong, n. = table tennis.
Etymology
imit. f. the sound of a bat striking a ball
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