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What is the noun for double-entendres?

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double entendre
  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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    1. “Nor do these multiple definitions create some sort of particularly funny double entendre.”
      “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.”
double-entendre
  1. Alternative spelling of double entendre
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    1. “The woman's response in verses 11 and 12 is replete with Johannine double-entendre, irony and misunderstanding.”
      “A double-entendre is designed here, and the same is often to be found in old plays.”
      “This double-entendre was originally published in a Philadelphia newspaper a hundred years ago.”
double-entendres
double entendres
  1. plural of double entendre
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    1. “By the early 1970s, his relentless double entendres were beginning to sound dated and self-parodic.”
      “The lyrics are brimming with double entendres and the emotion is uncluttered, leaving it raw with intensity and character.”
      “A line could and should easily be drawn, however, when these companies resort to nonsensical double entendres involving lewdness and obscenity.”
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