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- [ping pong, pawng]
- /pɪŋ pɒŋ, pɔŋ/
- /pɪŋ pɒŋ/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [ping pong, pawng]
- /pɪŋ pɒŋ, pɔŋ/
Definitions of ping-pong word
- verb with object ping-pong 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. 1
- verb without object ping-pong to go back and forth; change rapidly or regularly; shift; bounce: For ten years the foreign correspondent ping-ponged between London and Paris. 1
- noun ping-pong sport: table tennis 1
- intransitive verb ping-pong go back and forth 1
- noun Technical meaning of ping-pong (architecture) A phenomenon which can occur in a multi-processor system with private caches where two processors are alternately caching a shared location. Each time one writes to it, it invalidates the other's copy. 1
- uncountable noun ping-pong Ping-pong is the game of table tennis. 0
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Origin of ping-pong
First appearance:
before 1900 One of the 17% newest English words
First recorded in 1900-05
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Ping-pong
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
ping-pong popularity
A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 39% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
According to our data about 56% of words is more used. This is a rare but used term. It occurs in the pages of specialized literature and in the speech of educated people.
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