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  • Thumbnail for Double entendre
    A double entendre (plural double entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which...
    21 KB (2,515 words) - 11:29, 13 May 2024
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    Faggot (food) (category Articles with short description)
    American English meaning as a pejorative term for a homosexual man. In 2004, a radio commercial for the UK supermarket chain Somerfield, in which a man rejects...
    8 KB (830 words) - 05:48, 29 April 2024
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    Pussy (category Articles with short description)
    is used as a noun with the meaning "cat", "coward", or "weakling". In slang usage, it can mean "vulva or vagina" and less commonly, as a form of synecdoche...
    23 KB (2,481 words) - 16:03, 1 June 2024
  • Paraprosdokian (category All articles with self-published sources)
    sentence, but they also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a form of syllepsis or antanaclasis (a type of pun). For example, in response...
    12 KB (1,255 words) - 07:04, 24 May 2024
  • Rithian Terror (also known as Double Meaning) is a science fiction novel by American writer Damon Knight. The story is a psychological thriller that follows...
    3 KB (281 words) - 00:08, 20 February 2023
  • Psycho (2020 film) (category Articles with short description)
    would star. Under the banner of Arun Mozhi Manickam's Double Meaning Productions, Mysskin finalized a cast of Aditi Rao Hydari, Nithya Menon, Rajkumar Pitchumani...
    20 KB (1,814 words) - 09:54, 4 June 2024
  • Coogan's Bluff (film) (category Articles with short description)
    long-time home of the New York Giants baseball club, the Polo Grounds, with a double-meaning derived from the name of the lead character. Arizona deputy sheriff...
    16 KB (1,808 words) - 15:53, 27 May 2024
  • Puzzle (category Articles with short description)
    redirect targets Riddle – Statement with a double meaning used as a puzzle Kendall G.; Parkes A.; and Spoerer K. (2008) A Survey of NP-Complete Puzzles, International...
    10 KB (1,146 words) - 06:58, 29 May 2024
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    title fails to convey the double meaning of the Russian "Роман," meaning both "novel" and "romance". Novel with Cocaine is a Dostoevskyan psychological novel...
    4 KB (346 words) - 19:08, 18 April 2024
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    Sambuca (category Articles with short description)
    Gray, W. Blake (February 23, 2006). "Coffee drinks give 'I'm buzzed' a double meaning". San Francisco Chronicle. San Francisco. Retrieved 2013-12-23. "Wine...
    5 KB (484 words) - 00:51, 19 February 2024
  • The Wolfe Tones (category Articles with short description)
    Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798, with the double meaning of a wolf tone – a spurious sound that can affect instruments in the string...
    14 KB (1,173 words) - 17:44, 8 May 2024
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    names often have an unintended effect or double-meaning when read by someone who speaks another language. A number of settlements have names that are...
    34 KB (3,299 words) - 07:23, 2 June 2024
  • Predators (film) (category All articles with dead external links)
    second film in the Alien franchise, Aliens (1986). The title also has a double meaning, referring both to the extraterrestrial Predator creatures and to the...
    58 KB (5,815 words) - 16:53, 24 May 2024
  • the first shot meaning the second shot of a double tap is usually more accurate. The term hammer is sometimes used to describe a double tap in which the...
    11 KB (1,137 words) - 00:43, 26 May 2024
  • Maayon (film) (category Articles with short description)
    Peradi as Devaraj, Senior Director The film is produced by Double meaning Productions with screenplay by Arun Mozhi Manickam and star Sibi Sathyaraj in...
    13 KB (1,095 words) - 08:51, 30 May 2024
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    Fado (category Articles with short description)
    itself, although both meanings are approximately the same in the two languages. Nevertheless, many songs play on the double meaning, such as the Amália...
    13 KB (1,458 words) - 21:13, 18 April 2024
  • Gay (category Articles with short description)
    concert promoter they knew, with the ambiguous line "he is so gay and fancy-free" attesting to the word's double meaning at that time. As late as 1970...
    44 KB (4,930 words) - 22:57, 23 May 2024
  • 2019 on Young God and Mute. A double album, Leaving Meaning's songs have been mixed separately for vinyl and CD releases, with the CD version of the album...
    15 KB (956 words) - 17:10, 28 May 2024
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    Kuranosuke Sasaki (category Articles with short description)
    was a freshman and received a phone call from his college company to decide on a stage name, his father suggested the name Kuranosuke, with a double meaning;...
    13 KB (743 words) - 04:04, 4 June 2024
  • The Dance (song) (category Articles with short description)
    explains that the song is written with a double meaning - both as a love song about the end of a passionate relationship, and a story of someone dying because...
    11 KB (973 words) - 16:42, 24 May 2024
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