pong
IPA: pˈɔŋ
noun
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A stench, a bad smell.
- (networking) A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.
- (video games) An early video game from Atari, resembling ping-pong, in which two players control paddles and attempt to intercept a ball.
- (mahjong) Alternative form of pung [(US, Canada) A low box-like sleigh designed to be pulled by one horse.]
verb
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To stink, to smell bad.
- (slang, theater, derogatory) To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.
- (slang, theater, intransitive) To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.
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Examples of "pong" in Sentences
- We had table-top computing years ago – it was called pong then. reply
- Forget Microsoft Surface and all its multi touch fandagery … pong is all you need!
- For example: ping pong wasn't a sport, so nothing similar to ping pong is a sport.
- Bill Geist explores the resurgence of the classic game of ping pong, which is now ...
- The pong was a different one to when the blaze began, but it wasn't a particularly foody pong.
- Why beer pong is good business, why time will end in Southern California and how those FBI wiretaps work:
- I was always under the impression that beer pong is the game with paddles, while Beirut is the game without.
- Characters can be anything from paddles in pong, to fully rendered super heroes, to undulating soundscapes we poke at with sticks.
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