Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A trademark for table tennis and associated equipment.
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Examples
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Time magazine described them, signaled the beginning of the thaw between the two nations, a triumph of what became known as Ping-Pong diplomacy.
NYT > Home Page By BRUCE WEBER 2010
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Follow up The game that Alcorn created was fun to play and since the name Ping-Pong was already trademarked, it was called simply [...]
We Blog A Lot 2008
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On April 6, 1971, in a happening that came to be known as Ping-Pong diplomacy, a young American Ping-Pong player walked over to speak with the Chinese team at a tournament in Japan.
The Last Empress Hannah Pakula 2009
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"Rather than have this kind of Ping-Pong effect of having the decision overturned, appealed and then overturned again, it's better to have this kind of decision."
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The conference room had a Ping-Pong table, and, maintaining the tradition, the desks were doors on sawhorses.
In the Plex Steven Levy 2011
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Several video-game controllers littered the floor, and half the room away were pool tables and foosball stands, a Ping-Pong table, along with well-worn air-hockey tables.
Surrender the Dark L. A. Banks 2011
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Boyan and Mosquito played Ping-Pong on an old blackboard.
Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Aggie Zivaljevic's 'Where Is My Boy?' Zoe Triska 2011
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Jeff Herr for The Wall Street Journal Sister Louisa's Church of the Living Room and Ping-Pong Emporium: Artist Grant Henry's surreal bar has good eats, a ping-pong table and an organ for 'community karaoke.'
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Boyan and Mosquito played Ping-Pong on an old blackboard.
Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Aggie Zivaljevic's 'Where Is My Boy?' Zoe Triska 2011
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We handed out fingerless gloves, built a fire in the fire pit, and played Ping-Pong until the sun came up.
Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011
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