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Wordplay

Wordplay is the term for using words in an unusual way that is considered amusing or otherwise interesting.

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anagram
crab canon
figure of speech
holorime[?]
kenning
lipogram
mondegreen
pangram
palindrome
pun
rebus[?]
transcription (linguistics)
verbing
word games

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