Noun
Examples
"A boiled egg for breakfast is hard to beat."
The word beat in the sentence can be interpreted as meaning "be better than", giving the sentence the meaning "it is hard for anything to be better than a boiled egg for breakfast", or as meaning "mix rapidly" in which the sentence would mean "it is hard to rapidly mix a boiled egg in preparation for breakfast".
play on words (plural plays on words)
(idiomatic) A pun, or similar humorous use of language such as a double entendre.
At the roots of the ethics is desire: analysis' only promise is austere, it is the entrance-into-the-I (in French a play on words between l'entrée en je and l'entrée en jeu). Source: Internet
March 20, 2008 French music lyrics typically feature puns, play on words and suggestive phonetic combinations. Source: Internet
Ah, well, how often we play on words, and with change, we wanted to play on it? Source: Internet
!” wrote one follower who used a play on words from her caption, and also left many red heart-eye emoji. Source: Internet
He soon, however, recovered and wrote, for the benefit of his two sons, his Malmad ha-Talmidim, a name which, involving a play on words, was intended to be both a Teacher of the Disciples and a Goad to the Students. Source: Internet
In the early years of the Bundestag, it was commonplace to announce a speaker's name followed by his or her electoral district, so Schmidt-Schnauze is also interpreted as a play on words. Source: Internet