Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To improvise on the stage; gag.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun networking A
packet that is replying to aping , and thereby indicating the presence of ahost . - noun UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang A
stench , a badsmell . - verb UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang To
stink , tosmell bad. - noun games A set of three identical tiles.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an unpleasant smell
Etymologies
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from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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I was always under the impression that beer pong is the game with paddles, while Beirut is the game without.
January Jones, beer-pong: These are a few of my favorite things | EW.com 2009
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Characters can be anything from paddles in pong, to fully rendered super heroes, to undulating soundscapes we poke at with sticks.
The Authorship Conflict SVGL 2009
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Forget Microsoft Surface and all its multi touch fandagery … pong is all you need!
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Forget Microsoft Surface and all its multi touch fandagery … pong is all you need!
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Why beer pong is good business, why time will end in Southern California and how those FBI wiretaps work:
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For example: ping pong wasn't a sport, so nothing similar to ping pong is a sport.
games 2005
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We had table-top computing years ago – it was called pong then. reply
Microsoft Announces Surface Computer Duncan Riley 2005
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The pong was a different one to when the blaze began, but it wasn't a particularly foody pong.
unknown title 2009
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Bill Geist explores the resurgence of the classic game of ping pong, which is now ...
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Bill Geist explores the resurgence of the classic game of ping pong, which is now ...
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Shortz attempts to teach me table tennis – no sportsman calls it ping-pong, a term associated, scornfully, with “garage players” – but after I sufficiently embarrass myself I bow out.
‘I’ve outlasted them all’: the spectacular life of the world’s most powerful crossword editor J Oliver Conroy 2021
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