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aerial ping pong en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

A reference to the football going up and down the ground by long high kicks. (Reference: Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University).

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, humorous, sometimes, uncountable) Australian rules football.
    • 'Australian Rules draws bigger crowds in Melbourne than Rugby in Sydney.' 'What?' Sydney Sam would say, 'that's not football, mate, it's aerial ping-pong.' 1965, Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, page 43: