wordplay

wordplay
n
1. repartee, give-and-take, lively exchange, riposte, Inf. snappy comeback; quip, Inf. zinger, Inf. a good one; banter, badinage, persiflage; drollery, waggery, jest, Inf. kidding, Inf. kidding back and forth, Inf. joshing, Sl. funning around; witticism, bon mot.
2. pun, double entendre, equivoque, Rhet. paronomasia, Fr. jeu de mots. equivocation; anagram, acrostic, word square, crossword puzzle; spoonerism, malapropism, Irish bull, Pig Latin, macaronics; clerihew, limerick, patchwork verse; palindrome, pangram, rhopalic, univocalic, stinky pinky

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