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

verb

1. intr to give off an unpleasant smell; stink

Derived Forms

• ˈpongy, adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of pong¹

First recorded in 1915–20; of obscure origin

Word History and Origins

Origin of pong¹

C20: perhaps from Romany pan to stink

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.

From Digiday

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.

From Digiday

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

From Popular-Science

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.

From TechCrunch

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

From Popular-Science

Anyone with the intellect of a ping-pong ball should understand how opportunistic that whistleblowing looks.

From The Daily Beast

Meanwhile, Kiev and Moscow passed the fault for the tragedy to each other, as if they were playing ping pong with the tragedy.

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

Public gardens had special ping-pong tables to relieve the stress.

From Project Gutenberg

And, by the way, you boys haven't made the acquaintance of Pong, have you?

From Project Gutenberg

"Pong is as funny as his name, even if he is a Chinaman," laughed Stallings.

From Project Gutenberg

Pong, what are you going to give us out of the chuck wagon in the morning?

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg