ping-pong

¹

[ ping-pong, -pawng ]

verb (used with object)

1. 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)

1. to go back and forth; change rapidly or regularly; shift; bounce:

   For ten years the foreign correspondent ping-ponged between London and Paris.

Ping-Pong

²

[ ping-pong, -pawng ]

Trademark.

1. table tennis.

Ping-Pong

/ ˈpɪŋˌpɒŋ /

noun

1. another name for table tennis Also calledping pong

Word History and Origins

Origin of ping-pong¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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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

Pictures of adult ping-pong champions were blazoned in the public print; even churchmen took it up.

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Doctors advised it, children cried for it, and a fashionable journal devised the correct ping-pong costume for players.

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At last the people seized upon ping pong, and it became common.

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One I know bears the marks of newness, since the game of ping pong has only recently come into existence.

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