Phrase guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
Table tennis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: flim-flam, whiff-whaff, gossima
Antonyms: none provided
noun
An instance of figuratively bouncing something or someone back and forth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
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noun
The exchange of proposed amendments between the House of Commons and House of Lords, particularly at the end of a session when compromises have to be made to complete the legislative process within the limited time available.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, uncountable
Topics: government, politics
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noun
A size of photograph a little larger than a postage stamp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, dated, uncountable
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noun
A small, shallow steelpan drum.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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verb
To figuratively bounce or be bounced back and forth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
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verb
To figuratively bounce or be bounced back and forth.
To refer (a patient) unnecessarily to a number of clinics or practitioners as a form of fraud.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive, transitive
Topics: medicine, sciences
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verb
To play the game of ping pong.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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History
Onomatopoeic. The name “ping-pong” was in wide use before British manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked it in 1901. Jaques sold the rights to the “ping-pong” name in the United States to Parker Brothers. Registered in the United States in 1930, Ping-Pong (with dash) is still a registered wordmark of Parker Brothers, Inc. Contrary to a common misconception, the word does not originate from Chinese 乒乓 (pīngpāng), though there are possibilities that the coiners encountered Chinese themselves.
