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wordplay

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun wordplay has 1 sense

wordplay(n = noun.communication) paronomasia, pun, punning - a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her"

is a kind of fun, play, sport

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CIDE DICTIONARY

wordplay, n.

A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

wordplay, n. use of words to witty effect, esp. by punning.

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THESAURUS

wordplay

abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, calembour, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, missaying, palindrome, paronomasia, play on words, pun, punning, spoonerism

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