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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pong
noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
snooker/billiard/ping-pong etc table
▪ And time is measured out by the di-dock, di-dock of a Ping-pong table.
▪ By the production line stand basketball nets and ping-pong tables for use during breaks.
▪ Gretel, looking half awake, was standing on the other side of the Ping-Pong table.
▪ In front of the platform stood a pair of billiard tables, as shown overleaf.
▪ Leaning against the Ping-Pong table, he picked up the stethoscope and felt its peculiar rubbery tubes.
▪ She slashed wildly at the ball with the edge of the bat, and the ball bounced under the snooker table.
▪ The room was bare except for a ping-pong table on folding trestle legs.
▪ The youth leader conveyed her thanks for the re-covering of the snooker table.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ What a pong! This place hasn't been cleaned for years!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Pseudomonas prefers a nice warm fridge, but has less competition in the cold, hence the pong.
▪ The pong was such that we used to pinch our noses as we ran past.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pong

by late 1960s as an abbreviation of ping-pong. The electronic arcade game (with capital P-) was released 1972.

Wiktionary
pong

Etymology 1 n. (context networking English) A packet that is replying to a ping, and thereby indicating the presence of a host. Etymology 2

n. (context UK Australia New Zealand slang English) A stench, a bad smell. vb. (context UK Australia New Zealand slang English) To stink, to smell bad. Etymology 3

n. (context games mahjong English) A set of three identical tiles.

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WordNet
pong

n. an unpleasant smell [syn: niff]

Wikipedia
Pong

Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games and the very first sports arcade video game. It is a table tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it, Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity. The aim is to defeat an opponent in a simulated table-tennis game by earning a higher score. The game was originally manufactured by Atari, which released it in 1972. Allan Alcorn created Pong as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell. Bushnell based the idea on an electronic ping-pong game included in the Magnavox Odyssey, which later resulted in a lawsuit against Atari. Surprised by the quality of Alcorn's work, Bushnell and Atari co-founder Ted Dabney decided to manufacture the game.

Pong quickly became a success and is the first commercially successful arcade video game machine, which helped to establish the video game industry along with the first home console, the Magnavox Odyssey. Soon after its release, several companies began producing games that copied Pongs gameplay, and eventually released new types of games. As a result, Atari encouraged its staff to produce more innovative games. The company released several sequels that built upon the original's gameplay by adding new features. During the 1975 Christmas season, Atari released a home version of Pong exclusively through Sears retail stores. It was also a commercial success and led to numerous copies. The game has been remade on numerous home and portable platforms following its release. Pong has been referenced and parodied in multiple television shows and video games, and has been a part of several video game and cultural exhibitions.

Pong (disambiguation)

Pong is a 1972 video game created by video game pioneer Al Alcorn.

Pong may also refer to:

Computing
  • Pong, in computer networking jargon, a response to a ping
Places
  • Amphoe Pong, a district in Phayao Province, northern Thailand
  • Ban Pong (commune) (also simply called Pong), a commune in Cambodia
    • Ban Pong (also simply called Pong), a village in Ban Pong (commune)
  • Kingdom of Pong, an ancient Shan kingdom in modern-day Burma that existed from the first to the eleventh centuries
Other
  • Pong, British slang for odour, especially unpleasant
  • Beer pong and Beer pong (paddles) (also known as Dartmouth pong), different variations of drinking games played on a ping-pong table
  • Pong Nawat Kulrattanarak (born 1978), Thai actor. Education: Primary to High School from St. Gabriel College

bachelor's degree of Economics from Kasetsart University master's degree of Economics from Chulalongkorn University

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Usage examples of "pong".

Thirty or so five-year-olds bounced around the free fall gym like a barrage of demented ping pong balls when their creche mother, a plump pleasant downsider woman they called Mama Nilla, assisted by a couple of quaddie teenage girls, first let them out of their reading class.

Beneath the cloying incense, the muskier pong of hashish lay thick in the air.

Incensed, Morganthal canceled his afternoon meetings and hustled over to 500 Indiana, arriving just as Cedric Hyde led Gregory Campisi, Sally Pong, Ginny Toledo, and Isaac Brown to the second-floor conference room.

Sally Pong and Cedric Hyde might very well listen to your story, pretend to believe you, then put every cop on the force on the case in an effort to discredit you.

Possibly to have you talk to Sally Pong, Cedric Hyde, and those two detectives on the case.

Welton got in with Cedric Hyde and Sally Pong while Sharon rode with the cops.

Despite the rain barrel, Jilamey had exuded a pong that she was afraid might cling to her and spoil this evening.

I can take a light object--a Ping Pong ball --in which a tiny hyperatomic motor makes up 90 percent of the mass, and move it superluminally.

A sudden pong, followed by a nerve-jangling squeal, as of metal torquing violently, passed through the copper room.

I reminded myself that I was going to have to tuck away something unless I wanted my blood sugar and insulin levels to engage in a high-spirited game of Ping Pong.