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ghost-ping

ghost-ping verb: to ping someone or some people and then delete the message with which one pinged them, which causes them to receive a ping notification but no message or sender.

Verb

ghost-ping (third-person singular simple present ghost-pings, present participle ghost-pinging, simple past and past participle ghost-pinged)

  1. (Internet, transitive) To ping someone or some people and then delete the message with which one pinged them, which causes them to receive a ping notification but no message or sender.
    • Stop ghost-pinging the staff!

Noun

ghost-ping (plural ghost-pings)

  1. (Internet, transitive) The act of ghost-pinging.
    • I hate ghost-pings!

Forms of ghost-ping

Verb
third-person singular presentghost-pings
present participleghost-pinging
past participleghost-pinged
pastghost-pinged
Noun
pluralghost-pings

Questions about ghost-ping

What does ghost-ping mean?
Ghost-ping means to ping someone or some people and then delete the message with which one pinged them, which causes them to receive a ping notification but no message or sender.
What part of speech is ghost-ping?
Ghost-ping can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of ghost-ping?
The past tense of ghost-ping is ghost-pinged.

Words near ghost-ping in the dictionary

  1. ghost written
  2. ghost wrote
  3. ghost-faced bat
  4. ghost-faced bats
  5. ghost-lore
  6. ghost-ping
  7. ghost-pinged
  8. ghost-pinging
  9. ghost-pings
  10. ghost-ridden
  11. ghost-ride

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