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You must mean pun, but that word does not refer to multiple meanings. A pun is using a word, or making one up, that sounds like the word that's expected. For example, there is an expression "No news is good news." It means we haven't anything to worry about that we know of. So, a condemned man gets a reprieve from hanging, and he says "No noose is good news." Ho ho. It's good because it makes new sense using the wrong word.

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