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ping-pong

[ping-pong, -pawng] Informal.
–verb (used with object)
1. to move back and forth or transfer rapidly from one locale, job, etc., to another; switch: The patient was ping-ponged from one medical specialist to another.
–verb (used without object)
2. to go back and forth; change rapidly or regularly; shift; bounce: For ten years the foreign correspondent ping-ponged between London and Paris.

Origin:
1900–05

Ping-Pong

[ping-pong, -pawng]
Trademark.
table tennis.
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ping-pong  (n.)
1900, as Ping-Pong, trademark for table tennis equipment (Parker Brothers). Both words are imitative of the sound of the ball hitting the paddle; from ping (q.v.) + pong, attested from 1823. The verb is from 1901; in the figurative sense, 1952.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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