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puns

noun as in play on words

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There are stabbing actions and fight-for-your-life moves as Decker throws out petrifying puns, making the class chuckle between huffs and puffs.

What are we to make of Park’s fusion of comedy and danger, his puns and wordplay and arcane theories?

Just prepare yourself for a Frankensteined dog cop, a killer cyber fish, a plethora of puns and . . . a surprisingly empowering message about how we should regard deadbeat cat dads.

From Salon

Nauman paid close attention to Duchamp’s penchant for an art of puns and conundrums.

Quips, puns, allusions — the nonsense tumbles out of him so fast, you barely have time to make sense of one joke before he’s onto the next.

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

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