Usually means: Play on words, humorous effect.
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  1. puns: Merriam-Webster
  2. puns, puns: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. puns: Collins English Dictionary
  4. puns: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pun's, Puns, puns: Wordnik
  6. puns: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Puns, puns: Wiktionary
  8. puns: Dictionary.com
  9. puns: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Puns: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. puns: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. puns: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PUNS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

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

(Note: See pun as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pun)

verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
verb:  (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.
noun:  A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
noun:  (India, historical) A certain number of cowries, generally 80.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun (“Korean unit of measure”) [Senses referring to baked goods.]
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