n
(slang, poker) A player who uses unfair tricks to gain advantage; one who angle-shoots.
v
(transitive) To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
v
(transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
n
A person who plays the game of craps.
v
(sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
n
(transitive, Internet slang) The act of ghost-pinging.
n
A line of dancers who perform a kicking dance such as the cancan.
v
(card games) To shoot the moon.
n
Alternative form of mumblety peg [(US) Any of several forms of a game in which a jack-knife is thrown so that it sticks into the ground close to the player's feet.]
v
(nonstandard) simple past tense of ping
n
(text messaging, Internet) An email or other message sent requesting acknowledgement.
n
(figuratively) An instance of figuratively bouncing something or someone back and forth.
n
A type of erotic performance in which various objects, including ping pong balls, are ejected from a woman's vagina.
v
Alternative form of ping pong [(transitive, intransitive) To figuratively bounce or be bounced back and forth.]
n
(historical) The exchange of ping pong players between the United States and the People's Republic of China in the early 1970s, marking a thaw in relations between the two countries.
n
(dated, rare) One who plays or is enthusiastic about ping pong.
adj
(networking, of a computer) That can be pinged; responsive to pings.
n
(computing) The recipient of a ping (packet sent over a network to determine the presence of a host).
n
A computer program that sends a ping message over a network.
adj
Characterised by ping sounds.
v
(transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
v
To throw (something) onto (something).
n
Alternative form of pitch and toss [A game played by tossing a coin and calling heads or tails.]
n
(computing, dated) The symbol ! (an exclamation mark).
v
(transitive, informal, social media) To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.
n
(networking) A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.
v
(transitive, Internet slang) To ping someone by replying to a previous message of theirs
v
To play a game of roshambo in order to decide a point of contention.
n
A player of the word game Scrabble.
v
(card games) To achieve the lowest or highest score possible, such that the player is usually rewarded with bonus points.
v
(basketball) To dunk forcefully, to slam dunk.
n
Alternative form of tennikoit [A sport resembling tennis, played with a rubber ring instead of a ball.]
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