I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Pardon the pun , but we were all in the same boat," said Navy lieutenant Green.
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"Seven days without food makes one weak'' is a pun on the words "week'' and "weak'', and also on the different meanings of "one''.
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The audience groaned at his pun .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Among the devices he used were puns.
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And we do, I mean, we both do, we both make a lot of unintentional puns, uh.
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Dreams are puns on words and situations in the engram bank.
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Drinks in hand, the crowd around me erupted with groans of exasperation, the kind usually reserved for terrible puns.
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He made a pun on it for the title of his revue Cranks.
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Instead of charging bulls, Professor Ito bravely faces a barrage of puns.
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Political problems which might have stymied Solomon were resolved in a pun or an epigram..
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Waterhouse is given to such puns.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An awl is an iron instrument used for piercing leather, but the word has been in punning use since time immemorial.
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Food for thoughts, puns the hysterical Kate as they depart.
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It also puns the Kray/Crow connection and gangland murders.
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Oh, how he could pun .
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The hotelier family's punning motif-a bull with its horns to the ground-was woven into the vestibule carpet.