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double entendre
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a double entendre
a word or phrase which has two different meanings, one of which is sexual or rude. His speech at the dinner was full of bad jokes and double entendres.
See also: double

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The double entendres of "My Boat" as a love song and indictment of colonialism ("My boat/sweet anger/sweet salvage/cast anchor upon my fingers .
Today, TV sitcoms burst with double entendres, and police dramas wallow in sex and violence.
There are double entendres and there are double standards, so I sent them my personal forty-three-hour tape from the Clinton years with footage of their own hysterical jokes about Bill and his Willy.
 
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