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What is a double entendre?

What is a double entendre? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic) A phrase that has two meanings, especially where one is innocent and literal, the other risqué, bawdy, or ironic; an innuendo.
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Nor do these multiple definitions create some sort of particularly funny double entendre.
Her monologue during the show was a mix of morbid poetry, bad puns and ghoulish double entendre, setting the standard for her myriad successors.
Ah, but these are in the great British tradition of double entendre, people might say.
The pleasure of words, not least in rhyme and double entendre, taken by hip-hop and rap culture perfectly mirrors Shakespeare's poetry.
From Woolamaloo, comes a few megabytes of extremely unsubtle double entendre.
In the title piece, readers are thrown from one double entendre to the next.

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