beer pong

[ pong, pawng ]

noun

1. a game in which two teams take turns throwing a Ping-Pong ball across a table, aiming to get it into one of the cups of beer at the opposing team's end of the table, forcing their opponents to drink the beer.

Word History and Origins

Origin of beer pong¹

First recorded in 1970–75; beer + (Ping-)Pong

Example Sentences

They stopped by The Daily Beast HQ to play some beer pong—and challenged Kevin Fallon to a chugging contest.

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The brothers were incredibly game as we played a very sad round of beer pong.

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The audience laughed at that, so people missed the rest: "… in a winner-take-all game of beer pong."

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Lindsay, 33, and Martin, 32, met in 2007 when they were both hired to work on a documentary on the World Series of Beer Pong.

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