double-entendre

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  1. noun A word or phrase having a double meaning, especially when the second meaning is risqué.
  2. noun The use of such a word or phrase; ambiguity.

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  • Today, in a further dent to her reputation, a photograph emerged from the vice-presidential hopeful's student days of her wearing a garish T-shirt with the double-entendre slogan: 'I may be broke but I'm not flat busted.' —  Home | Mail Online
  • Any English actor knows they can get easy laughs with even the flimsiest double-entendre; de Sade building himself "a back stairway to Heaven" had them practically rolling in the aisles. —  The Guardian World News
  • Conall Morrison has no such qualms; pitching headfirst into a world where men are men, women are commodities, all accents are funny and where there must be a double-entendre every few minutes.
  • When you see the unedited clip of Obama saying what he said, his pause --- waiting for the crowd to catch his joke --- it is clear that his double-entendre about lipstick was intentional. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Even so, ads like many of those Lysol ran had a considerable double-entendre. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
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  1. Obsolete French : double, double + entendre, to mean, interpretation.
 

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