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/pɪŋ-pɔŋ/ Listen

noun

ping-pong n.

An indoor modification of lawn tennis played with small bats, or battledores, and a very light, hollow, celluloid ball, on a large table divided across the middle by a net. Also called table tennis. ((originally a trade name)

A size of photograph a little larger than a postage stamp.

verb

Ping-pong v. i.

To play ping-pong.

To bounce back and forth, in the manner of a ping-pong ball.

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Etymology of 'Ping-Pong'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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