ping-pong n. 乒乓, 乒乓球运动, 桌球, "踢皮球", 推来推去
[电] 交替术
ping-pong[ noun ]
a game (trademark Ping-Pong) resembling tennis but played on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball
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Ping-pong \Ping"-pong`\, v. i.
1. To play ping-pong.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. to bounce back and forth, in the manner of a ping-pong
ball.
[PJC]
ping-pong \ping"-pong`\, n. [Imitative.]
1. 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]
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
2. A size of photograph a little larger than a postage stamp.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- House and Senate conferees have been meeting separately and thus far the negotiations have been a ping-pong match of offers and counter offers.
- With over 33 million billiards players in the U.S. and another 20 million world-wide, the couple reason that the games belong in the Games just as much as, say, ping-pong.
- A ping-pong team is due.
- At one booth at the Comdex show, a company's representatives played ping-pong.
- Since last Monday's 22% market crash, Salomon "has been going back and forth like a ping-pong ball" on whether to proceed, a source close to the project said.
- "It might be like trying to lubricate the moon rubbing against the Earth by putting ping-pong balls on the mountains," says Rice's Mr. Smalley.
- "The foreigner might like to hear it, but he can't get with it because when he was born he was born in 4/4," instead of the "ping-pong" rhythm of calypso, explains Lord Kitchener, who at 70-plus is something like the Frank Sinatra of Trinidad.