Usually means: Play on words for humor.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word punning:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. punning: Merriam-Webster
  2. punning, punning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. punning: Collins English Dictionary
  4. punning: Vocabulary.com
  5. Punning, punning: Wordnik
  6. punning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. punning: Wiktionary
  8. Punning, punning: Dictionary.com
  9. Punning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Punning: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. punning: Rhymezone
  12. Punning: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. punning: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. punning: FreeDictionary.org
  15. punning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. punning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. punning: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. punning: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (punning)

▸ noun:  The action of the verb to pun.
▸ adjective:  That makes or uses a pun.

Similar:
wordplay, play on words, lampooning, punchline, joking, punch line, quibble, laughing, prankage, wind-up, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, solemnity, gravity

Types:
play on words, double entendre, rebus, more...

Phrases:
type punning, more...

Adjectives:
visual, such, sexual, much, verbal, mere, constant, elaborate, bilingual, serious, endless

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Similar:
wordplay, play on words, lampooning, punchline, joking, punch line, quibble, laughing, prankage, wind-up, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, solemnity, gravity

Types:
play on words, double entendre, rebus, more...

Phrases:
type punning, more...

Adjectives:
visual, such, sexual, much, verbal, mere, constant, elaborate, bilingual, serious, endless



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