I. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
snooker/billiard/ping-pong etc table
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And time is measured out by the di-dock, di-dock of a Ping-pong table .
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By the production line stand basketball nets and ping-pong tables for use during breaks.
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Gretel, looking half awake, was standing on the other side of the Ping-Pong table .
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In front of the platform stood a pair of billiard tables , as shown overleaf.
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Leaning against the Ping-Pong table , he picked up the stethoscope and felt its peculiar rubbery tubes.
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She slashed wildly at the ball with the edge of the bat, and the ball bounced under the snooker table .
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The room was bare except for a ping-pong table on folding trestle legs.
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The youth leader conveyed her thanks for the re-covering of the snooker table .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Doubtless a sort of graphite derivative, it should ensure that tuning stays smooth and ping free.
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It missed mostly; when it did score a hit there was a screaming ping and no more.
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Ixora batted the ring from his hand, and it fell with a ping into the surrounding flowerbed.
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Little pops and sizzles, and the occasional ping .
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Of what use to the mosquito, one may ask, is its ping ?
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The navigation computer pings like a ready microwave.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I was rescued momentarily by the first drops of rain, pinging on the tin roof above us.
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Noise was muted, telephones pinging daintily against the artificial air.
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The man from Forensic arrives, his steel heel-caps pinging across the tarmac.