pong

Meaning

1. A stench, a bad smell.
2. To stink, to smell bad.
3. To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.
4. To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.
5. A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.
6. Alternative form of pung.
7. An early video game from Atari, resembling ping-pong, in which two players control paddles and attempt to intercept a ball.

Etymology / origin

Probably from Romani pan (“to stink”).

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