"telly tennis" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From telly + tennis, the game having a superficial resemblance to table tennis.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tele-tennis",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "teletennis",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "telly tennis (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Australian English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Video games",
          "orig": "en:Video games",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              81,
              93
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1976, Elaine Feinstein, The ecstasy of Dr Miriam Garner, page 101:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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              10,
              22
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1979 October 4, New Scientist, volume 84, number 1175, page 48:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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            [
              101,
              113
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1992, Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson), Long live Sandawara, page 61:",
          "text": "He finds them sitting at a small table holding a horizontal video tube and stands watching them play telly tennis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The game of Pong, or any TV game closely based on it."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "video game",
          "video game"
        ],
        [
          "Pong",
          "Pong"
        ],
        [
          "TV game",
          "TV game"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, video games, UK, Australia) The game of Pong, or any TV game closely based on it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "UK",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "video-games"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/En-au-telly_tennis.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "telly tennis"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From telly + tennis, the game having a superficial resemblance to table tennis.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tele-tennis",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "teletennis",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "telly tennis (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "British English",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Video games"
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            [
              81,
              93
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1976, Elaine Feinstein, The ecstasy of Dr Miriam Garner, page 101:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              10,
              22
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1979 October 4, New Scientist, volume 84, number 1175, page 48:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              101,
              113
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1992, Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson), Long live Sandawara, page 61:",
          "text": "He finds them sitting at a small table holding a horizontal video tube and stands watching them play telly tennis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The game of Pong, or any TV game closely based on it."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "video game",
          "video game"
        ],
        [
          "Pong",
          "Pong"
        ],
        [
          "TV game",
          "TV game"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, video games, UK, Australia) The game of Pong, or any TV game closely based on it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "UK",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "video-games"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/89/En-au-telly_tennis.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "telly tennis"
}