Noun
The situation in which a word or phrase has two different, often opposite, meanings. For example, wicked can mean both "good" and "bad".
A deliberate construction that plays on two separate meanings of a word or words; a pun.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgIf I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning. Mae West
Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing. Stanley Spencer
The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. Ronnie Barker
Ha. "Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner." There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado) William Shakespeare
There is no phrase that doesn't have a double meaning. Kenyan Proverb
There is no phrase without a double meaning. Kenyan Proverb