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telly tennis

noun

Etymology

From telly + tennis, the game having a superficial resemblance to tennis.

Definitions

  1. The game of Pong, or any TV game closely based on it.

    • The monitored heart-rate on a small screen, like a hesitant green version of the telly tennis he'd played in pubs or railway stations.
    • Hooked on telly tennis, or football? We've been carrying out some in-depth testing of (playing with) a TV games unit for you to build.
    • He finds them sitting at a small table holding a horizontal video tube and stands watching them play telly tennis.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for telly tennis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA