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wordplay
[ wurd-pley ]
wordplay
/ ˈɜːˌɪ /
noun
- verbal wit based on the meanings and ambiguities of words; puns, clever repartee, etc
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In them, characters burst with life through his wordplay and fervent philosophical opinions.
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Even at its most brooding, “Gemini” is enlivened by amusing wordplay and Heynderickx’s wry delivery.
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Now, she says, a song’s success is less about its hookiness or wordplay than about “whether you go, ‘Oh my God, I literally texted that to my friend yesterday.’”
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But Carpenter hits her wordplay climax in “Juno” where she uses the movie name as a reference to pregnancy.
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It’s very silly, but the naughty wordplay in the song is clever, and the crane shot with the boys swinging their legs in the air toward the camera is sublime.
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