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double-entendre

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1. double-entendre - Noun

2. double-entendre - Phrase

Meaning

A word or expression admitting of a double interpretation, one of which is often obscure or indelicate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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double entendre

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; double entendre : a figure of speech wherein a word or phrases can be taken to have two distinct coherent meanings, most often in a fashion that is suggestive and/or ironic. Source: Internet

Such artists as Boby Lapointe often use alliterations, onomatopoeia and puns or double entendre lyrics. Source: Internet

As he remains terrorized inside, his special guests show up one by one to teach him about Christmas, murder, Hanukkah, marijuana, angels and the dirty double entendre known as "nutmeg." Source: Internet

The Bay Area and L.A. unite on ’s “Blow-Up Bed,” which charts their ascent from air mattresses to California kings, a clever double entendre for what the two rising rappers are becoming. Source: Internet

What they lack in money, they make up with in faux chicken clucking, running gags and clever as hell double entendre. Source: Internet

The racy double entendre wasn’t penned by the credited screenwriters — that’d be Jules Furthman and William Faulkner — but by producer Howard Hawks, who came up with the line at Lauren Bacall’s test screening. Source: Internet

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