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pun

/pʌn/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
  2. To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
  3. To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.
  4. A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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