A deliberate construction that plays on two separate meanings of a word or words; a pun.
The situation in which a word or phrase has two different, often opposite, meanings. For example, wicked can mean both "good" and "bad".
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.
To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.
To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.