pong

noun

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang)A stench, a bad smell.

   “Carrot ran past him to get to the barrel first, and peered down at the cowering Catweazle. “No rats, Dad,” he said. “What's that terrible pong, then?” said Mr Bennett, sniffing.”

   “1992, Bryce Courtenay, Tandia, Volume 1, 2011, Read How You Want, page 109, She sniffed, squiffing up her nose. ‘What a pong! Do they all smell like this?’”

   “I can remember calling round once and when she answered the door I was greeted by an unmistakable, noxious pong. “I can smell gas!” I said. “Oh, have I left the ring on?” she asked vaguely.”

   “2000, Susan Sallis, 2011, unnumbered page, ‘I see what you mean about the pong. I couldn′t smell it on myself but I can smell it on you!’”

   “If you want to empty a crowded room strong body pong will usually do the trick.”

2. A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host.
3. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of pung.

verb

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang)To stink, to smell bad.

   ““Give them a drink of this and thy father shall see them as they are. They shall speak from their black hearts.” “Pongs a bit,” sniffed Carrot. “Sure it's not poisonous?””

   “1997, Taufiq Ismail, David M. E. Roskies (translator and editor), Stop Thief!, Black Clouds Over the Isle of Gods and Other Modern Indonesian Short Stories, page 97, On she walked at a crawling pace, ponging of sweat, drops of mucus and blood falling between her feet.”

   “2009, Susan Brocker, Saving Sam, HarperCollins, New Zealand, unnumbered page, The place ponged, like the smell of stale cat pee.”

   ““[…]That toothless bloke ponged. Couldn′t you smell him? He smelled like a bloody pub floor at closing time.””

   “2011, Victor Pemberton, We′ll Sing at Dawn, 2012, eBook, Headline Publishing, unnumbered page, […] and this evening, Eileen Perkins′s daughter Rita ponged with the smell of cheap carbolic soap, after a late-afternoon visit to the public baths down Hornsey Road.”

2. (derogatory, slang)To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it.
3. (intransitive, slang)To invent a line of dialogue when one has forgotten the actual line.

   “[…] and the “good old crusted” actor, forgetting the lines of the author, used without compunction to cover his discomfiture by inventing a text of his own–an achievement known as "ponging."”

name

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.”