Meaning

3 senses
  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang)To stink, to smell bad.

    2009, Susan Brocker, Saving Sam, HarperCollins, New Zealand, unnumbered page, The place ponged, like the smell of stale cat pee.

  2. (derogatory, slang)To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.

  3. (intransitive, slang)To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.

Examples

29 sentences
  1. Ping pong is also called table tennis.

    Пінг-понг також називають настільним тенісом.

    ruПинг-понг называют также настольным теннисом.

    dePingpong nennt man auch Tischtennis.

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  2. Tom and Mary are still playing ping pong.

    Том та Мері все ще грають у настільний теніс.

    ruТом и Мэри всё ещё играют в настольный теннис.

    deTom und Maria spielen noch immer Tischtennis.

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  3. Tom and Mary played ping pong.

    ruТом и Мэри играли в пинг-понг.

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  4. How well can you play ping-pong?

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  5. Tom can't remember which ping-pong paddle is his.

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Translations

2 languages

Origin

Probably from Romani pan (“to stink”).

Probably from Romani pan (“to stink”).

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Forms

pongs, ponging, ponged, ponged
Base formpong · to pong
3rd person singularpongs
Present participleponging
Past simpleponged
Past participleponged

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypong
he, she, itpongs

Past simpleLesson

all personsponged

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave ponged
he, she, ithas ponged

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pong

Synonyms

3 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pong — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto