pong

Meanings

Noun

• A stench, a bad smell.
• A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.
• Alternative of pung

Verb

• To stink, to smell bad.
• To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.
• To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.

Related

Similar words

• reek, smell, stink

Origin

• Probably from Romani pan.
• From ping, via the pairing of ping-pong.