Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - table manners

You can use table manners to refer to the way you behave when you are eating a meal at a table. He attacked the food as quickly as decent table manners allowed. N-PLURAL: usu supp N TABLE TENNIS also table-tennis Table tennis is a game played inside by two or four people. The players stand at each end of a table which has a low net across the middle and hit a small light ball over the net, using small bats. N-UNCOUNT