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Pun Often

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99%7Exact Match!
noun

• a person who groans

30%3 Dad joke, often
noun

• a humorous play on words

verb

• make a play on words

26%9Pun with a double meaning
noun

• an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes

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New York Times18 Sep 1993 Down 13
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