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pun

noun as in play on words

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Andy looks like a human adult but behaves like an awkward, stammering middle-schooler eager to ingratiate himself with his peers by telling toothless jokes straight out of a Scholastic pun manual.

From Salon

Those ads, which centered around a pun on the phrase “good genes,” were accused of promoting eugenics.

From Salon

And that is how a quack who treats the tender corns on pedicured toes suddenly becomes a world-renowned corn doctor in a show that seemingly never met a pun it didn’t like.

Many attendees dress in costumes in accordance with the annual theme, which in 2025 is entitled "pun intended".

From BBC

But drinking trends come and go, and by the end of the 20th century, bourbon was considered a bit old fashioned - pun intended.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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