pong

Plural: pongs

Noun

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

Verb

Verb Forms: ponged, ponging, pongs

To emit a strong, unpleasant smell; to stink.
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.

Examples

That strategy will pong, he thought, as his opponent left a triple-word score open.

Origin / Etymology

Probably from Romani pan (“to stink”).

Synonyms

niff, reek, smell, stink

Scrabble Score: 7

pong: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
pong: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
pong: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

pong: valid Words With Friends Word