double entendre
noun
a double meaning.
double entendres
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pluralof double entendre.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The combination of the deadpan delivery and pushing the boundaries of what they could get past the censors with the double entendres gets me laughing every time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2024
She would sit with me for hours on the couch, pointing to words in books and magazines, and patiently enunciating them, bantering with me in an inexhaustible volley of puns, spoonerisms and goofy double entendres.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 12, 2023
For more than two hours, it pelts you with piffle so egregious — not just puns but also dad jokes, double entendres and booby-trapped one-liners — that, forced into submission, you eventually give in.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2023
Well, to make a short list: There was fake outrage, double entendres, unintentionally revealing jokes, the gaveling down of legislators and, most chronically, a serial missing of the point.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
The double entendres, the two-pronged sentences, slid over his tongue to dart rapier-like into anything that happened to be in the way.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
