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wordplay
CIDE DICTIONARY
wordplay, n.
A more or less subtle playing upon the meaning of words. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
THESAURUS
wordplay
abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, calembour, corruption, equivocality, equivoque, jeu de mots, logogram, logogriph, malapropism, metagram, missaying, palindrome, paronomasia, play on words, pun, punning, spoonerismFor further exploring for "wordplay" in Webster Dictionary Online