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Definition of Ping-pong
1. Noun. A game (trademark Ping-Pong) resembling tennis but played on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball.
Generic synonyms: Table Game
Examples of category: Exchange, Rally
Language type: Trademark
Definition of Ping-pong
1. Noun. (alternative form of ping pong) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Ping-pong
1. See: ping-pong mechanism. Origin: Ping-Pong, trademark for table tennis (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ping-pong
Literary usage of Ping-pong
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"Ping Pong! Ping Pong ! No more about a slender waist Shall arm in uniform be placea.
He looks askance At signs of happiness and mirth ; Soldiers were put ..."
2. List of Subject Headings for Use in Dictionary Catalogs by American Library Association, Mary Josephine Briggs (1914)
"Eic games; ping-pong; Play; Polo; Rackets; chool athletics; Solitaire; Sports;
String figures; Tennis; Toys Gaming see Gambling Gaols see Prisons Garages ..."
3. The New York Times Current History of the European War (1915)
"OCO rubles ($500) to 750 rubles ($375) and to cut out the special 6-ruble war tax.
PING PONG. By BEATRICE BARRY. FAITH, hear our soldier boys ..."
4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1903)
"Little book of ping-pong verse; also complete rules for table tennis. **75 c.
net. ... ping-pong: how to play it. net, 75 c. Putnam. Ritchie and Harrison. ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The name ping-pong is a registered trade-mark, the game itself being by many ...
In 1900 the name was changed to ping-pong, and under that title enjoyed its ..."
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