Wordplay

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A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words.

Noun

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wordplay - a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her" Synonyms: paronomasia, pun, punning

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