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Pong

proper nounattested in dialogue

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

proper noun

  1. 1

    An 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,

    The paddle controllers are necessary for playing Pong-style contests, and since two paddles share one controller input you can easily play doubles Pong with an extra set of paddles.

Etymology

Marketing coinage, from ping-pong.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).