Pongname

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  video-gamesAn early video game from Atari, resembling ping-pong, in which two players control paddles and attempt to intercept a ball.

  • A good lunar lander or Pong-type game was all you needed to strike it rich!
  • If the US invades Iraq, we'll see action all right, much more than we witnessed with the primitive Pong-ish effects delivered during Gulf War 1.0,

pongnoun詞源 1/pɒŋ/

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  slangA stench, a bad smell.

  • Carrot ran past him to get to the barrel first, and peered down at the cowering Catweazle. “No rats, Dad,” he said. “What's that terrible pong, then?” said Mr Bennett, sniffing.
  • 1992, Bryce Courtenay, Tandia, Volume 1, 2011, Read How You Want, page 109, She sniffed, squiffing up her nose. ‘What a pong! Do they all smell like this?’

pongverb詞源 1/pɒŋ/

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  slangTo stink, to smell bad.

  • “Give them a drink of this and thy father shall see them as they are. They shall speak from their black hearts.” “Pongs a bit,” sniffed Carrot. “Sure it's not poisonous?”
  • 1997, Taufiq Ismail, David M. E. Roskies (translator and editor), Stop Thief!, Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories, page 97, On she walked at a crawling pace, ponging of sweat, drops of mucus and blood falling between her feet.
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  derogatoryslangentertainmentlifestyletheaterTo deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.

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  slangentertainmentlifestyletheaterTo invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.

  • […] and the “good old crusted” actor, forgetting the lines of the author, used without compunction to cover his discomfiture by inventing a text of his own–an achievement known as "ponging."

pongnoun詞源 2/pɒŋ/

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  computingengineeringmathematicsA packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• pung