Meaning of popty ping | Babel Free

Definitions

A microwave oven.

UK, humorous

Examples

“2014, F. John Hurr, Light of the Damned First, could it be warmed up in a popty ping — a microwave oven — or consumed straight from the container?”

“In Wales it is known as popty-ping! / In our house it is chicken ding! / Whatever you want to call it now / It's a very clever thing somehow”

“quoted in 2020, Simon Walters, The Borisaurus: The Dictionary of Boris Johnson 'Pop it in the popty-ping.' Interview with Welsh journalist Guto Hari, 10 December 2019. Describing his Brexit deal as a meal ready to go in the microwave.”

“Most of us don't want to bung a microwave meal into the popty ping (only for it to come out hot enough to burn your mouth off).”

CEFR level