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The duality and double entendres in hip-hop is so important and crucial.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

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

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

For an entire album, Scott left the double entendres to one side, writing instead about hardscrabble and desperate lives, where escape is no more than a dream.

From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2017

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