Crossword clues for ping-pong
ping-pong
The Collaborative International Dictionary
ping-pong \ping"-pong`\, n. [Imitative.]
An indoor modification of lawn tennis played with small bats, or battledores, and a very light, hollow, celluloid ball, on a large table divided across the middle by a net. Also called table tennis. [[originally a trade name]
A size of photograph a little larger than a postage stamp.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1900, as Ping-Pong, trademark for table tennis equipment (Parker Brothers). Both words are imitative of the sound of the ball hitting a hard surface; from ping + pong (attested from 1823). It had a "phenomenal vogue" in U.S. c.1900-1905.
1901, from ping-pong (n.). In the figurative sense from 1952. Related: Ping-ponged; ping-ponging.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of ping pong English) vb. (alternative form of ping pong English)
Wikipedia
Ping-Pong was an American battlefield reconnaissance rocket, developed by Lockheed in 1964. Intended to be launched, overfly the target area, then fire a rocket in the nose to return to its launch site, flight tests were undertaken in 1964, but production was not proceeded with.
Ping-pong is a trademarked name for the game of table tennis.
Ping-pong, Ping pong, or Pingpong may also refer to:
In film:
- Ping Pong (1987 film), a British film
- Ping Pong (2002 film), a 2002 Japanese manga-adaptation film
- Ping Pong Playa, a 2007 film directed by Jessica Yu
- Ping Pong (2012 film), a British documentary, directed by Hugh Hartford
In music:
- Ping Pong (EP), a 1994 EP by the group Stereolab
- "Ping-Pong", a song by X-Wife from Side Effects
- PingPong (band) Israeli band who participated in Eurovision 2000
- Ping Pong over the Abyss, a 1982 album by The 77s
- " Do You Know? (The Ping Pong Song)", a 2007 song by Enrique Iglesias
- The Ping Pong EP, a 2000 album by SNFU
- Ping Pong, a song by Armin van Buuren on the album A State of Trance 2014
In mathematics:
- Ping-pong lemma, any of several mathematical statements for proving that some elements in a group acting on a set freely generate a free subgroup of that group.
In computer science:
- Ping (networking utility), the standard request and reply to a computer host check
- Ping-pong scheme, a programming algorithm
- Ping-pong packet amplification, a form of denial-of-service attack
- Ping-Pong virus, a computer virus
Ping Pong may also refer to:
- Ping Pong (manga), a Japanese manga series by Taiyō Matsumoto
- A term for a photograph that is passport-photo size.
- Parliamentary ping-pong, a term for when legislation is passed back and forth between two house of parliament.
- Ping pong recording technique, a sound recording technique
- Ping Pong Diplomacy describes a thawing in relationships between China and the U.S.A. in the 1970s
- Ping-Pong Club, a Japanese manga by Minoru Furuya
- Pong, a 1972 video game from Atari Inc.
- Konami's Ping Pong, a 1985 video game from Konami
- Ping pong show, a sex tourism show prevalent in Thailand
Usage examples of "ping-pong".
Automatic firing was quicker, possibly more certainbut that mushy cutoff could bounce them like a ping-pong ball.
Elint towers, odd-shaped antennas secured in cement, warning signs, and radomes that looked like giant Ping-Pong balls were erected.
Waterford crystal and laboriously assembled our brand-new pool, Ping-Pong, and foosball tables.
Ping-pong championship popping in your brain, go slow and easy, watch your eyelids come down in a twenty-minute blink, go Quaalude crazy, swallow those pills with Cuervo, Lone Star, or that essence of East Texas corruption, Wild Turkey liquor.
Along with this, I had another jar full of the semilethal Ping-Pong dust.
Footjoys and blue sweat socks, drawing the long tapered steel wand of his Lynx Predator driver from the bag, he feels tall again, tall the way he used to on a hardwood basketball floor when after those first minutes his growing momentum and lengthening bounds and leaps reduced the court to childlike dimensions, to the size of a tennis court and then a Ping-Pong table, his legs unthinkingly eating the distances up, back and forth, and the hoop with its dainty skirtlike net dipping down to be there on the layups.
They already had one Chinese member, a mechanic for Harley-Davidson, but he was a quiet, dependable type and nothing like Ping-Pong, who made the outlaws nervous.
The cheerleaders bounced about like irregular ping-pong balls, shaking their pompoms among other things and arousing the pep squad to frenzied squeals.
Mahlke who during the winter after the second summer on the barge created the pompoms: two little woolen spheres the size of ping-pong balls, in solid or mixed colors, attached to a plaited woolen cord that was worn under the collar like a necktie and tied into a bow so that the two pompoms hung at an angle, more or less like a bow tie.
An undercut, backspinning ball in Ping-Pong was a strange shot with special properties.
I tole him about the Ping-Pong stuff in China an gettin involved with the NASA people an startin up the srimp bidness an playin football for the New Orleans Saints.
Traditional optics are long since obsolete – tunable matter can slow photons to a stop, teleport them here to there, play ping-pong with spin and polarization – and besides, the dumb matter in the walls and floor has been replaced by low-power computronium, heat sinks dangling far below the floor of the lily-pad habitat to dispose of the scanty waste photons from reversible computation.
Several Disty were playing Go -- they felt it was the best thing they had discovered on the planet Earth, with Ping-Pong a close second -- sitting on the tables so that their heads were as near the ceiling as they could get.
That one-man ant army that, in its marches, did not gnaw down with its mandibles but set up, with its many metal arms, one gigantic dormlike structure, including kids' play-grounds, swimming pools, ping-pong tables and dart boards.
He enjoyed a reputation for progressiveness and played ping-pong in the sacristy with the altar boys and those preparing for their first communion.