Usually means: Creative manipulation of language elements.
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  1. word play: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. word play: Vocabulary.com
  3. word-play: Wordnik
  4. word play: Wiktionary
  5. word play: Dictionary.com
  6. Word play: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. word play: Rhymezone
  8. word play: FreeDictionary.org
  9. word play: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. word play: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (word play)

noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see word, play.
noun:  A technique in which the nature of the words used become part of the subject of the work, such as puns, phonetic mix-ups such as spoonerisms, obscure words and meanings, clever rhetorical excursions, oddly formed sentences, and telling character names.

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