Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To improvise on the stage; gag.
Wiktionary
- n. networking A packet that is replying to a ping, and thereby indicating the presence of a host.
- n. UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang A stench, a bad smell.
- v. UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang To stink, to smell bad.
- n. games A set of three identical tiles.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an unpleasant smell
Etymologies
- Probably from Romani pan ("to stink"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Characters can be anything from paddles in pong, to fully rendered super heroes, to undulating soundscapes we poke at with sticks.”
“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
“Forget Microsoft Surface and all its multi touch fandagery … pong is all you need!”
“Why beer pong is good business, why time will end in Southern California and how those FBI wiretaps work:”
“For example: ping pong wasn't a sport, so nothing similar to ping pong is a sport.”
“We had table-top computing years ago – it was called pong then. reply”
“Bill Geist explores the resurgence of the classic game of ping pong, which is now ...”
“The primary ping-pong, that is - the bitter battles with Barack, her husband's crimson face and wagging finger, the endless wrangling over every state, every superdelegate.”
“In the past and when I had my own time to waste (and I still have the power cord accessible in my dining room) I have brought down the hair dryer and blasted the door until the thing went "pong" and started working okay (we had stupid weather around Christmas and I had stupid door problems then).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pong’.
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Sounds
words that describe sound
atchoo, atishoo, babble, bam, bay, beep, blast, blather, bleat, bleep, blip, bong and 242 more...
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Stink Different™
What-the-smell is that?
hircine, jumentous, hyena butter, cadaverine, new car smell, teen spirit, parosmia, hircismus, ylang-ylang, burnt hair, hydrogen sulfide, gay bomb and 115 more...
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sound (loud)
words for loud sounds
( open list, descriptive, randomness )
also see:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopo...crash, thud, bump, thump, boom, smash, explode, roar, scream, screech, short, yell and 168 more...
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Stuffie: Monging
Stuff you mong.
iron, war, fish, rumor, squid, word, scare, coster, cheese, hate, scandal, fear and 4 more...
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Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV
Words from the songs of Frank Black, a.k.a. Black Francis
zugzwang, valhalla, montalvo, ishist, tritons, mosh, siam, llano del rio, protohuman, tumbleweeds, ludwigshafen, ballyhoos and 349 more...
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Shadowkeir's list
This list, the one shown below this very message, is a collection of words that you cannot begin to fathom how much I adore. The list will also feature atithesis and contrasting words such as the t...
wishful, anticlimactic, forte, monchromatic, septic, wonderous, isoclinal, deformed, disintergrate, favourite, laughable, awe-inspiring and 250 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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Hiroe's Words
facetious, bardic, twatwaffle, cattywampus, splendiferous, zomg, merf, fwaa, fnord, tortify, schwiz, blort and 225 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 547 more...
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smells
different kinds of smells
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Playtime
Games I love or have loved
cootie, pickup sticks, war, slapjack, checkers, pinball, galaga, pong, dodgeball, comingoverhere, badminton, candlepin bowling
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cbars420's Words
boob, wiener, monkey, dookie, anal, breast, tit, melon, student, teach, kitten, sex and 82 more...
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Makes me queasy
bunting, toot, cardamom, ignorant, spoonerism, polyp, pong, colostrum, lung, beef, obese, plop and 3 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for pong.
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