0 the activity of joking about the meanings of words, especially in an intelligent way
Yaida has professed to a love of word-play and anagrams.
An announcer calls out the names of the moves and entertains the audience with clever wordplay.
He has been said to have a gift for wordplay, with lyrics described as brainy... startling imagery.
Singlish is full of cultural nuances and wordplay, and it pulls together the best in the grammar, syntax, and vocabulary of many languages.
He was chancing his arm slightly by using clever wordplay on "creche"and"crash".
Luke's poetic statement of intention, we will arise and go now initiates the sequence of dialogic wordplay.
They do this by appropriating media discourse for the naming of these neighborhoods but according to criteria established through local genres of naming, joking, and wordplay.
This postmodern wordplay shrouds lack of clarity.