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ping-pong



Pronunciation: (ping'pong", -pông"), [key] Informal.

—v.t.
to move back and forth or transfer rapidly from one locale, job, etc., to another; switch: The patient was ping-ponged from one medical specialist to another.

—v.i.
to go back and forth; change rapidly or regularly; shift; bounce: For ten years the foreign correspondent ping-ponged between London and Paris.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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