"popty ping" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: popty pings [plural]
Etymology: From Welsh popty (“oven”) and English ping (“high-pitched sound”). Head templates: {{en-noun|nolinkhead=1}} popty ping (plural popty pings)
  1. (UK, humorous) A microwave oven. Tags: UK, humorous
    Sense id: en-popty_ping-en-noun-6yQGapOQ Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "text": "2014, F. John Hurr, Light of the Damned\nFirst, could it be warmed up in a popty ping — a microwave oven — or consumed straight from the container?"
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          "text": "2014, Pete Barry, You're Having a Larf!\nIn 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"
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          "text": "quoted in 2020, Simon Walters, The Borisaurus: The Dictionary of Boris Johnson\n'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."
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