Usually means: Words with two interpretations possible.
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  1. double meaning: Merriam-Webster
  2. double meaning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. double-meaning: Wordnik
  4. double meaning: Wiktionary
  5. Double meaning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. double-meaning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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  1. Double meaning: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (double meaning)

noun:  The situation in which a word or phrase has two different, often opposite, meanings. For example, wicked can mean both "good" and "bad".
noun:  A deliberate construction that plays on two separate meanings of a word or words; a pun.

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