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pun

noun as in play on words

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This pun, and the ABC Delis, are a wry stab at the onscreen stereotype of a South Asian convenience store worker.

But Rankin puts Riel’s face on his movie’s fictional money, too — a pointed production design choice that’s at once a pun on Iran’s currency, the rial, and a way to award value to Riel’s valor.

The Anti-Defamation League spoke out on Thursday over a series Nazi Germany-themed puns posted by billionaire Elon Musk, slamming what it called “inappropriate and highly offensive jokes that trivialize the Holocaust.”

From Salon

For me, one consideration trumps all others, pun intended, to excuse the president: The deplorable Trump is about to reclaim power.

"I think it's made me more empathetic. It's opened up my eyes, pun intended, to understand disabilities for other people."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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