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pingback

pingback noun: a message automatically sent to a blog when one of the blogger's entries is referenced by another blogger.

Noun

pingback (plural pingbacks)

  1. (Internet) A message automatically sent to a blog when one of the blogger's entries is referenced by another blogger.

Forms of pingback

pluralpingbacks

Origin of pingback

From ping + back.

Questions about pingback

What does pingback mean?
Pingback means a message automatically sent to a blog when one of the blogger's entries is referenced by another blogger.
What part of speech is pingback?
Pingback is a noun.
What is the plural of pingback?
The plural of pingback is pingbacks.

Words near pingback in the dictionary

  1. Pingala
  2. Pingali
  3. pingas
  4. pingases
  5. Pingba
  6. pingback
  7. pingbacks
  8. Pingbian
  9. Pingchen
  10. Pingcheng
  11. pingdemic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pingback (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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