ping-pong table
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2.1
- noun
- /ˈpɪŋˌpɔŋ ˈteɪbəl/
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mesa de ping-pong
- We enjoy playing doubles matches on our ping-pong table every weekend.
- room with a ping-pong table
And there used to be a ping pong table in the homeless shelter.
- And there used to be a ping pong table in the homeless shelter.
- And this is our multipurpose ping pong table.
- Then he got them to put ping pong tables at the Berto Center at their practice facility.
- It it's the same thing as there being, I don't know, a ping pong table in the room and you saying to this person, are you good at ping pong?
- I go, OK, we'll get a ping pong table no problem.
- It's much more of a dance when I'm playing ping pong with a human rather than just the other end of the ping pong table split sit up.
Examples
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In the middle of the room was a ping-pong table, and next to the far wall were racks of clothes for the indigent.
Fiction book (1991) -
And there used to be a ping pong table in the homeless shelter.
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You got a ping-pong table down here?
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I just got a ping-pong table.
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Oh, you have a ping-pong table?
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We look out the window at the ping-pong table in the backyard.
Fiction book (1998) -
I'll get the ping pong tables.
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Lunt takes the ball to the ping pong table.
Fiction book (2002) -
Jamie Lee: After my grandparents settled in Hollywood in 1940, they started working in their garage using a ping-pong table as their cutting board.
Blog text (21) -
There were three ping-pong tables in a large recreation room near the cafeteria, and after my third cup of coffee, I challenged Rosemary to a game of ping-pong.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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1.6
A flat rectangular table with a net used to play table tennis
A flat rectangular table with a net for playing table tennis
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
ping-pong + table
The meaning 'a table for playing ping-pong' is directly and compositionally derived from 'ping-pong' (the game) + 'table' (a flat surface), so a learner who knows both constituents can infer the MWE. This noun–noun compound is a productive, cross-linguistically common pattern and therefore readily understandable at B1 if the learner knows the sport name.
Etymology
Ping-pong table comes from the two sounds people heard when the ball hit the paddle and the table: 'ping' and 'pong'. That's why the name simply means the table used to play 'table tennis'.