PING-PONG Definition & Meaning

ping-pong

[ ping-pong, -pawng ]

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verb (used with object)

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)

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

[ ping-pong, -pawng ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

Trademark.

table tennis.

Ping-Pong

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noun

another name for table tennis Also calledping pong

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Origin of ping-pong¹

First recorded in 1900–05

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The bill will continue to be batted between the Commons and the Lords until agreement is reached, in a process known as "ping-pong".

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In an interview for Vanity Fair’s April cover, Paltrow divulged the first details about her character, saying she is “married to someone who is in the Ping-Pong mafia, as it were” and becomes entangled with Chalamet’s Marty.

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The eighth week of Donald Trump's second term has been marked by the dizzying ping-pong of tariffs and counter-tariffs, and Ukraine peace talks with officials from both Kyiv and Moscow.

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With Selma, we played ping-pong, which is the Henry Miller way of de-intellectualizing the area.

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Guests would come to his house and they’d start with a really rigorous round of ping-pong and lose all the intellectual pretense.

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