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double entendre

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double entendre

Device of deliberately using an ambiguous word or phrase, that often has a coarse or indelicate connotation.

An accidental double entendre is often termed a ‘Freudian slip’, after Sigmund Freud suggested that a person may reveal their unconscious mind by verbal ‘mistakes’.



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